Stephen Maturin

Stephen Maturin
First appearance	Master and Commander
Last appearance	The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Created by	Patrick O'Brian
Portrayed by	Paul Bettany (film) Richard Dillane (BBC Radio)
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Aliases	Don Esteban Maturin y Domanova, Etienne Domanova
Gender	Male
Occupation	Doctor/ Ship's surgeon/ Intelligence agent/Naturalist
Title	Doctor
Spouse(s)	Diana Villiers
Children	Brigid Maturin
Relatives	Several

Stephen Maturin, FRS, /ˈmætʃʊərɪn/ is a fictional character in the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. The series portrays his career as a physician, naturalist and spy in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and the long pursuit of his beloved Diana Villiers.

Maturin was played by Paul Bettany in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and by Richard Dillane in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of the O'Brian novels.

Stephen Maturin, called by his Catalan family Esteban Maturin y Domanova, a Roman Catholic, is the illegitimate son of an Irish officer serving in the Spanish Army and a Catalan lady. He is cousin to the historical Lord Edward FitzGerald. As a boy he lived in Ireland, fostered by a family of pig-herders in Cahirciveen and County Clare, and spent his teenage years in Catalonia – most notably with his grandmother in Lleida, his uncle in Barcelona and his godfather in Ullastret. He received a largely Benedictine education, focusing on the Classics (he speaks Ancient Greek and Latin fluently, and can recite The Aeneid). He returned to Ireland in his adolescence, and performed premedical studies at Trinity College, Dublin, and received further training in Paris, conceding to have "dissected with Dupuytren" while there.

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