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Dr James Muttlebury FRSE (1775–1832) was a Scottish physician who practised in Jamaica and England. He was a noted amateur botanist.
Life
[edit]He was born in 1775, either in Scotland or in Northern Ireland. He studied medicine at St Andrews University.[1]
In 1804 he was working as a military physician in Athlone in Ireland, and was transferred to Marlborough.[2]
In 1814 he was living in Jamaica and practising there.[3]
In 1819 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were fellow-botanists Robert Jameson, William Wright, and Hugh Murray.[4]
In 1822 he moved to Bath as a GP. In 1826 he became a Physician at the United Hospital in Bath. In 1824 he was living at the Edgar Buildings in Bath.[5]
Family
[edit]He married Elizabeth Margaret Rutherford of Kingston, Jamaica (1788–1869). She died in Canada.[6][7]
They had eleven children including Captain James William Muttlebury of Bath[8] who was father to Stanley Muttlebury.[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Munks Roll Details for James Muttlebury". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 93. F. Jeffries. 1803. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ↑ The Gentlemen's and Citizens Almanack 1814
- ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ↑ Hunts Bath Directory 1824
- ↑ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slave-ownership". ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ↑ "Elizabeth Margaret Muttlebury (Rutherford) (b. - 1869) - Genealogy". geni.com. 21 February 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ↑ "Correspondence and printed papers received by Francis Henry Dickinson". somerset-cat.swheritage.org.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ↑ "James William Muttlebury (1821 - 1887) - Genealogy". geni.com. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
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