THE SECOND DR. JOHN. 9 



with prayer. The Evangelical Magazine and TJieo- 

 logical Review for June 1821 contains a portrait and 

 biographical sketch of this worthy iEsculapian. " The 

 church of Edinburgh" wrote to " the church at Largo," 

 sympathising with the brethren on the loss they had 

 sustained in the death of Dr. Goodsir, whose " savoury, 

 and impressive, and edifying manner, as a pastor," 

 was well known in the Scottish metropolis, and had 

 frequently touched the hearts of both churches. 



Dr. Goodsir of Largo married Miss Agnes Johnstone 

 of Moffat, Dumfriesshire, by whom he had eleven child- 

 ren. His three sons took to surgery. John, the 

 third son, settled down at Anstruther, where he be- 

 came highly esteemed. He married Elizabeth Dunbar 

 Taylor, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Taylor of Carnbee, 

 whose wife was Jeanie Ross, daughter of Duncan 

 K<>rbes Ross of Kindeace, and oranddaughter of Grizzel 

 Forbes, the sister of Lord President Duncan Forbes. 

 This, the second Dr. John Goodsir, had five sons, three 

 of whom are dead, and one daughter. The oldest son, 

 named after his father, John, is the subject of this 

 memoir, and was born on the 20th March 1814. The 

 second son, Joseph, a scholar and divine, and his amiable 

 sister Jane, are now living in Edinburgh ; Harry, the 

 third son, an anatomist and naturalist of the highest 

 promise, joined Sir John Franklin's expedition to the 

 I N>l.tr Seas in 1S4.">, and perished with that noble band 

 of heroes— martyrs to science and geographical dis- 

 covery; Robert, the fourth son, graduated in medicine, 

 and sailed twice t<> the Arctic Regions with Captain 



