Matthew Charteris

Matthew Charteris MD FRSE LRCSE (1840 – July 1897) was a Scottish physician and academic who was the Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow.

Charteris was born in Newton Wamphray in Dumfriesshire in 1840, the son of John Charteris the local schoolmaster and his wife, Jean (Jane) Hamilton, daughter of Archibald Hamilton a farmer at Broomhills.

[1] He was educated by his father at Wamphray Parish School before winning a place at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine.

[3] After some further study in foreign schools, Charteris established a medical practice in Airdrie before moving to Glasgow.

[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1896, his proposers being Patrick Heron Watson and John Batty Tuke.