{{Short description|American physician}} {{Infobox person | name = Robert Coltman | image = Robert Coltman.jpg | caption = | birth_date = 19 August 1862 | birth_place = Washington, District of Columbia | death_date = 25 November 1931 | death_place = Washington, District of Columbia | resting_place = Glenwood Cemetery, Washington D.C. | occupation = *Author *Physician *Professor | alma_mater = Jefferson Medical College }}
'''Robert Coltman, Jr.''' (August 19, 1862<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-9WZQ|title=Passport Application|website=Family Search}}</ref> – November 3, 1931) was an American physician, born in Washington, to Robert Coltman and Mary Jane Clements. He received his medical training at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1931-11-04/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1931&sort=date&rows=20&words=COLTMAN+Coltman&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=5&state=District+of+Columbia&date2=1931&proxtext=coltman&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2|title=Evening Star, Page A-3, November 4, 1931}}</ref> and in 1881 began the practice of medicine. In 1896 he was appointed professor of anatomy at the Tung Wen College, Beijing, and in 1898 professor of surgery at the Imperial University, Beijing. He was personal physician to the Chinese royal household during that time. Li Hongzhang bestowed upon Dr. Coltman the decoration of the Double Dragon and made him a mandarin of the fourth rank.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=LJT19000704-01.2.16#|title=La Junta Tribune, Volume 21, Number 29, July 4, 1900}}</ref>
==Biography== Robert married Alice Winifred Gallagher, on August 26, 1881 in Pennsylvania. He fathered six children from this marriage.
During the siege of Peking by the Boxers in 1900 he sent out the first message that reached the outside world, acting as correspondent for the Chicago ''Record''. He became attorney for the Standard Oil Company at Tianjin, China.
He was author of ''The Chinese, their Present and Future: Medical, Political, and Social'' (1891) and ''Yellow Crime, or Beleaguered in Peking'' (1901).
Coltman retired in 1925 and returned to Washington, D.C, where he would die in 1931. He was a member of the following societies: a Mason, Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of the Cincinnati.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1931-11-04/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1931&sort=date&rows=20&words=COLTMAN+Coltman&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=5&state=District+of+Columbia&date2=1931&proxtext=coltman&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2|title=Evening star., November 04, 1931, Page A-3}}</ref>
==Works== * Coltman, Robert (1891). [http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CTWE/B29624538/ The Chinese, their present and future: medical, political, and social] Philadelphia: Davis. -University of Hong Kong Libraries, Digital Initiatives, China Through Western Eyes * [https://books.google.com/books?id=yY0CAAAAMAAJ ''Beleaguered in Peking: the boxer's war against the foreigner'' (1901)]; reprinted (with a foreword by Gareth Powell) by China Economic Review Publishing Ltd., Hong Kong, 2008
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==External links== *[https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70F1FF6395F177A93C7A9178AD95F458385F9 New York Times obituary, Nov. 5, 1931 (subscription required)] *[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1931-11-04/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1931&sort=date&rows=20&words=COLTMAN+Coltman&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=5&state=District+of+Columbia&date2=1931&proxtext=coltman&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2 Evening star., November 04, 1931, Page A-3 (free)] *{{NIE}}
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