GARTHSHORE, Maxwell FRSE, "practitioner of physic in London", Dr ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

  General Notes:

" MAXWELL GARTSHORE (GARTHSHORE)
28/10/1732- 01/03/1812
Place of Birth: Kirkcudbright.
Date of Election: 23/01/1792.
Profession: Physician.
Fellow Type: OF"

from Former RSE Fellows 1783- 2002




"Maxwell Garthshore was born at Kirkcudbright, capital of the county of that name, the 28th October, 1732. On both sides he was descended from antient and respectable families in Galloway. His mother's name was Barbara Gordon; his father was the Rev. George Garthshore, 50 years Minister in Kirkcudbright, and of whom it was the least distinction to have been born a gentleman."

"From the tuition of this excellent father, his son Maxwell received that early domestic education, often more important and more efficacious than any other. It was the peculiar advantage of Scotland that every parish contained a grammar-school, and most of the towns a very good one. In this particular, Kirkcudbright was not deficient. Mr. Garthshore, at the age of 14, was placed with a Surgeon-Apothecary in Edinburgh; where he attended the Medical Classes of the university."

"...Mr. G. joined the Army, to serve in the capacity of Mate to Surgeon Huck, afterwards Dr. Huck Saunders, in Lord Charles Hay's regiment"

"... in the year 1756. Dr. Garthshore succeeded to Dr. Fordyce at Uppingham. In this place he resided eight years, from 1756 to 1763 inclusive, giving much satisfaction by his activity, assiduity, and successful practice in Physic and Midwifery, in a very extensive range of country."

"...in 1763, Dr. G. removed with his family to London; and, after a short residence in Bedford -street, Covent-garden, settled in St. Martin's-lane, where he continued nearly 50 years... From this time forward, he continued for nearly half a century cultivating Medicine in all its branches, most attentive to every the improvement in them, Physician to the British Lying-in-hospital, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, rendering his house an asylum for the poor, as well as a centre of communication for the learned"

from Kirkcudbright History ^{2 7}

Maxwell married Elisabeth McGUFFOG, daughter of William McGUFFOG and Henrietta MAXWEL, on 11 November 1759 in Anwoth parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.¹ (Elisabeth McGUFFOG was baptised on 19 November 1732 in Anwoth parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland ¹.)