Robert Anstruther Goodsir

[1][2] He was born in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland, the son of Dr. John Goodsir (1742–1848), a medical practitioner and his wife Elizabeth Dunbar Taylor.

He collaborated on this with another brother, Harry Goodsir (1819 – c. 1848), a doctor and museum curator who served as assistant surgeon and naturalist on the Franklin expedition, and was lost in the Arctic.

[7] Determined to play an active role in searching for his missing brother Harry,[8] he wrote to Lady Jane Franklin to offer his services.

[11] The expedition failed to find Franklin largely because of ice in Lancaster Sound which forced it to turn back.

Although he had not yet qualified in medicine, he was appointed surgeon aboard the brig Lady Franklin, again under the command of William Penny.

According to a source there, “He visited Australia at the height of the gold fever, saw a good deal of life at the diggings, turned to squatting and for many years led an active and restless life.”[19] He had 210 acres at Ten Mile Creek near Albury by 1879.