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Maxwell Garthshore (28 October 1732 – 1 March 1812) was a Scottish physician and Fellow of the Royal Society. ==Life== The son of the Rev. George Garthshore, fifty years a minister in Kirkcudbright, he was born there on 28 October 1732. After being educated at the Kirkcudbright grammar school, he was apprenticed to a medical man in Edinburgh at the age of fourteen, and attended medical classes in the university. Before proceeding to his degree, Garthshore entered the army as surgeon's mate when in his twenty-second year. In 1756 he settled at Uppingham, succeeding (with the support of his cousin, Robert Maitland, a prosperous London merchant) to the practice of John Fordyce. After practising at Uppingham for eight years, Garthshore was encouraged to move to London, and to support his position there he graduated M.D. at Edinburgh 8 May 1764, and was admitted a licentiate of the London College of Physicians on 1 October 1764. He obtained a large practice as an accoucheur and was appointed physician to the British Lying-in Hospital. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, on 23 March 1775,〔Archives of the Royal Society〕 and of the Antiquarian Society of London.〔 He was a fashionable physician of the old school, a sincere Christian, and a generous donor. Anne Hunter, widow of John Hunter, received provision from him. He died on 1 March 1812, and was buried in Bunhill Fields cemetery.〔 Garthshore bore a striking resemblance to William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, and was once pointed out in a debate in the House of Commons as the earl, whom every one believed to be present. His portrait, by Slater, was engraved by Collyer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maxwell Garthshore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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