Martin Tupper (physician)

Martin Tupper, FRS, FGS (17 April 1780 – 8 December 1844) was an English physician originally from Guernsey.^[1] 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 Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating on 15 January 1802, but left two years later without achieving a degree.^[2] As well as becoming a Fellow of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London in 1819^[3] 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.^[4]

Personal life

Tupper married Ellin Devis Marris, the daughter of landscape painter Robert Marris (1749–1827) and granddaughter of Arthur Devis, on 7 August 1809. They had five sons, including the poet Martin Farquhar Tupper.^[5]

Death

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.^[6]