Martin Tupper (physician)
{{Short description|English physician (1780–1844)}}
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Martin Tupper, FRS, FGS (17 April 1780 – 8 December 1844) was an English physician originally from Guernsey.{{cite book |last1=Hudson |first1=Derek |title=Martin Tupper: His Rise and Fall |date=1949 |publisher=Constable |location=London |page=3 |url=https://archive.org/details/martintupperhisr0000huds }} 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.{{sfn|Hudson|1949|page=3}} As well as becoming a Fellow of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London in 1819{{cite book|title=Medico-chirurgical Transactions, Volume 26|page=xxiv}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27tupper%27%29|title=Fellow Details|publisher=Royal Society|accessdate= 11 July 2019}}
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.{{sfn|Hudson|1949|pages=3-5}}
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.{{cite book|title=The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of 1844, Volume 86| page=288}}
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Category:19th-century English medical doctors
Category:Fellows of the Geological Society of London
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
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