Martin Tupper, FRS, FGS (17 April 1780 – 8 December 1844) was an English physician originally from

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

Education and career

Tupper attended

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, matriculating on 15 January 1802, but left two years later without achieving a degree. As well as becoming a Fellow of the

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in 1819 he was an amateur geologist and a Fellow of the

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. He was also elected a

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in February 1835.

Personal life

Tupper married Ellin Devis Marris, the daughter of landscape painter Robert Marris (1749–1827) and granddaughter of

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, on 7 August 1809. They had five sons, including the poet Martin Farquhar Tupper.

Death

He died in 1844 at

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, the Berkshire home of the dying

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, while attending him in a medical capacity.

References

1780 births 1844 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Geological Society of London Fellows of the Royal Society {{England-med-bio-stub