Henry Duncan Spens (Harry) Goodsir (1819–45)

Physician. Younger brother of John Goodsir (ODNB). Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1843–5. Assistant-surgeon and naturalist to John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 expedition in search of a north-west passage.

Sources

M. H. Kaufman, Journal of Medical Biography 12 (2004): 82–9

Scotland, select births and baptisms, 1564–1950 Ancestry.com, accessed 16 April 2016