Misc. Notes
Name, year and place of birth and death from:
https://www.geni.com/people/Martin-Tupper-Physician/6000000045380042915Brian of
nzolivers.com found on the Internet:
The Druitt papers… Also included are… some Tupper Family papers
The first group of letters relate to
Martin Tupper, who was the Duke of Wellington's physician. Apart from this his chief claim to recognition was that he
twice refused a baronetcy, first from Lord Liverpool and secondly from the Duke of Wellington. The largest series relate to Daniel Tupper, who was the Inspector of Accounts in the Lord Chamberlain's office. There are 45 letters written to his wife, most of which are loveletters before and after their marriage. The letters also include two from his brother Martin Farquhar Tupper a nineteenth century poet of great repute. He was popular in England, but this feeling was lukewarm compared to his popularity in America where he was considered as great as Shakespeare. Towards the end of his life and afterwards he fell very quickly from favour to be virtually unknown outside literary circles today. In Druitt 510 there is an early, possibly unpublished, poem by him. After Daniel Tupper's death his wife Mary Ellinor wrote to the Queen asking for a pension. The reply granted the pension, but pointed out that this was an unprecedented act.
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