Background
The eldest son of George Boon Roupell of Chartham Park, Sussex, and his wife Frances, daughter of Robert M"Culloch of Charlton, Kent, a master in chancery, he was born on 18 September 1797. The family name was originally Rüpell, from Hesse-Cassel.
Education
He took no degree in arts, but graduated Bachelor of Medicine in 1820.
Career
1797–1854) was an English physician. He was sent to Charles Burney"s school at Greenwich, and, having obtained a Tancred studentship in medicine, entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1815. Roupell became a licentiate in medicine in 1824, and Doctor of Medicine in 1825, and on 30 September 1826 was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
He was a censor in 1829, 1837, and 1838, gave the Croonian lectures in 1832 on general pathology, and in 1833 on cholera (published the same year).
After some practice as physician to the Seamen"s Hospital Society and to the Foundling Hospital, he was appointed physician to Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital on 19 June 1834, in succession to Doctor Edward Roberts. In 1838 Roupell succeeded to his father"s estates, and then was less active in practice.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1839. He contracted cholera at Boulogne, and died in Welbeck Street, London, after twenty-six hours" illness, on 29 September 1854.