Matthew Guthrie (1743 – 30 August 1807) was a Scottish physician, mineralogist and traveller who rose to be councillor to the Russian royal family.
The family lived in the Nicholson area of Edinburgh, where the father worked as a lawyer in "Durie's Office".
[5] She had previously directed a convent school responsible for educating the female nobility of Russia.
Guthrie's second daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married General Sir James Hay KCH.
Guthrie's older sister Euphan married Charles Wright and was mother-in-law to Professor John Robison.