Martin Tupper

Martin Tupper, FRS, FGS (17 April 1780 – 8 December 1844) was an English physician originally from Guernsey. The son of John Tupper and Catherine Bowden, he became a respected medical doctor 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. As well as becoming a Fellow of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London in 1819 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.

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.

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.