Matthew Charteris
{{Short description|Professor at Glasgow University}}
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{{Infobox academic|birth_date=1840 |death_date=July 1897|education=University of Edinburgh (MD)|birth_place=Newton Wamphray, Scotland|death_place=Glasgow, Scotland|workplaces=Andersonian Institute|children=3, including John|relatives=Archibald Charteris (brother)}}
Matthew Charteris MD FRSE LRCSE (1840 – July 1897) was a Scottish physician and academic who was the Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow. He was also the author of the standard medical textbook the Practice of Medicine. He was an advocate of the influence of good climate upon health.
Early life and education
Charteris was born in Newton Wamphray in Dumfriesshire in 1840, the son of John Charteris the local schoolmaster and his wife, Jean (Jane) Hamilton, daughter of Archibald Hamilton a farmer at Broomhills.Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; vol. 7; by Hew Scott He was educated by his father at Wamphray Parish School before winning a place at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine.{{Cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead }} He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1863.{{Cite journal|last=Charteris|first=Matthew|date=1863|title=The cranial circulation|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/31852|website=Era.ed.ac.uk|language=en}}
Career
After some further study in foreign schools, Charteris established a medical practice in Airdrie before moving to Glasgow. From 1874 he worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and from 1876 was a professor of medicine at the Anderson Institute in Glasgow.{{Cite web|url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2278&type=P|title=University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Matthew Charteris|website=Universitystory.gla.ac.uk|access-date=2019-05-28}} From 1880 to 1897 he was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. He lived nearby at 3 Kirklee Gardens in Kelvinside.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1885-6
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1896, his proposers being Patrick Heron Watson and John Batty Tuke. His photograph is held by the National Portrait Gallery in London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp101282/matthew-charteris|title=Matthew Charteris - National Portrait Gallery|website=Npg.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-05-28}}
Personal life
Charteris was the younger brother of Archibald Charteris, theologian and founder of the Woman's Guild.Obituary: British Medical Journal, 3 July 1897 He and his wife, Elizabeth Greer, had three sons: Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1874–1940) who was implicated in the Marion Gilchrist murder and Oscar Slater scandal,{{Citation|last=Starke|first=J. G.|title=Charteris, Archibald Hamilton (1874–1940)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/charteris-archibald-hamilton-5564|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-05-28}} Francis Charteris (1875–1964), likewise suspected of murder, and John Charteris (1877–1946) a senior intelligence officer in World War I.{{Cite web|title=Prof. Matthew Charteris from The Gazetteer for Scotland|url=https://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst3972.html|access-date=2019-05-28|website=Scottish-places.info|language=en-gb}}
In the 1890s he was living at 3 Kirklee Gardens in the Kelvinside district.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1896 p.118
After a prolonged illness he died of influenza on 7 June 1897 in Comrie.Glasgow Herald (newspaper) 9 June 1897 He is buried with his parents in Wamphray churchyard.
Publications
- The Student's Guide to the Practice of Medicine (1881)
- Practice of Medicine (1888 plus further editions)
References
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Matthew Charteris |birth=1840 |death=1897}}
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh