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]

Tupper married Ellin Marris, and had four sons, including the poet Martin Farquhar Tupper.

He died in 1844 at South Hill Park, the Berkshire home of the dying Edmund Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick, while attending him in a medical capacity.[3]

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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