Harry Goodsir served as surgeon and naturalist on the ill-fated Franklin expedition.
10 Facts About Harry Goodsir
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Harry Goodsir's body was never found, but forensic studies in 2009 on skeletal remains earlier recovered from King William Island in Canada suggest that they may be those of Harry Goodsir.
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Harry Goodsir was born on 3 November 1819 in Anstruther, Fife, the son of Dr John Goodsir, a medical practitioner.
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Harry Goodsir studied medicine in Edinburgh and became a member of the Royal Medical Society.
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Harry Goodsir is described as "Acting surgeon on HMS Erebus".
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Robert Harry Goodsir wrote an account of this voyage: An Arctic voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound: in search of friends with Sir John Franklin.
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Harry Goodsir joined Penny again in 1850 as surgeon on the Admiralty-backed Franklin search expedition with the ships Lady Franklin and Sophia.
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Robert Harry Goodsir graduated as a medical doctor from St Andrews University in 1852, but rarely practiced medicine, travelling to New Zealand as a gold prospector and to Australia as a sheep farmer, before returning to Edinburgh where he died in 1895.
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Harry Goodsir's family were friendly with Robert Nasmyth, an Edinburgh dentist with an international reputation for such work.
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Harry Goodsir appears as a character in the 2007 novel The Terror by Dan Simmons, a fictionalized account of Franklin's lost expedition, as well as the 2018 television adaptation, where he is portrayed by Paul Ready.