Maxwell Garthshore FRSE LRCP (28 October 1732 – 1 March 1812) was a Scottish physician and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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.
[1] After practising at Uppingham for eight years, Garthshore was encouraged to move to London, and to support his position there he graduated M.D.
He obtained a large practice as an accoucheur and was appointed physician to the British Lying-in Hospital in London.
[4] His publications were: His first wife, who brought him the small estate of Ruscoe in Kirkcudbrightshire, died in 1765, leaving him one son surviving.