William George Maton

(31 January 1774 – 30 March 1835) was an English physician, a society doctor who became associated with the British royal family.

He attended Salisbury grammar school, and in July 1790 entered The Queen's College, Oxford.

[1] On 18 March 1794 Maton was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society, came to know the botanist Sir James Edward Smith.

He became vice-president of the society; and the members showed their regard for him by calling a woodpecker, a shell-fish, and a genus of plants after him.

He was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians of London on 30 September 1802, became Gulstonian lecturer in 1803, censor in 1804, 1813, and 1824, treasurer in 1814 to 1820, and Harveian orator in 1815.

He bought a country seat near Downton, Wiltshire, but six months later became very ill, and died 30 March 1835 at his house in Spring Gardens, London.

The initial tour was made with his friend Charles Hatchett and Thomas Rackett the botanist.