Valesius Skipton Gouldsbury CMG (17 March 1839 – 11 November 1896) was a British surgeon, military officer, and colonial administrator.
In 1862, he graduated with a doctorate in medicine without honours from the Queen's University of Ireland, and was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the same year.
[4] He served in the Anglo-Ashante Wars in the Gold Coast from 1873 to 1874 and was presented with a sword by the Secretary of State for the Colonies for his conduct.
Gouldsbury's negative report of trade prospects confirmed a feeling in London that further expansion into the interior would cost more than it gained.
[1] Gouldsbury suffered from failing health in Saint Lucia, and left in 1896 to return to England in an attempt to recover.