Martin Tupper (physician)

Martin Tupper, FRS, FGS (1780 – 8 December 1844) of 5 New Burlington Street, London was an English physician.

The son of John Tupper and Catherine Bowden, he became a respected physician whose patients included the Duke of Wellington.

As well as becoming a Fellow of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London in 1819[1] he was an amateur geologist and a Fellow of the Geological Society. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1835. [2]

He died in 1844 at South Hill Park, the Berkshire home of the dying Edmund Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick, when attending him in a medical capacity. [3] Tupper had married Ellin Marris, and had 4 sons, including the poet Martin Farquhar Tupper.

References
  1. Medico-chirurgical Transactions, Volume 26. p. xxiv.
  2. "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of 1844, Volume 86. p. 288.
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