James Muttlebury
Dr James Muttlebury FRSE (1775–1832) was a Scottish physician who practised in Jamaica and England. He was a noted amateur botanist.
Life
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]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]
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