Joseph Taylor Goodsir

Joseph Taylor Goodsir FRSE (16 September 1815 – 27 April 1893) was a Scottish minister and theological author.

Life

Joseph Goodsir was born in Lower Largo, Fife, on 16 September 1815, the second son of Elizabeth Dunbar Taylor and her husband, John Goodsir, surgeon. His elder brother was the anatomist John Goodsir; his younger brother Harry Goodsir died in the Franklin expedition.

He studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh sharing lodgings with his brother John, Edward Forbes and others at 21 Lothian Street in Edinburgh. Here they founded a group named the Universal Brotherhood of the Friends of Truth.[1] Upon ordination, he returned to Lower Largo as their minister.

Goodsir was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1868, his proposer being a friend of his brother, the anotomist Sir William Turner. He resigned from the society in 1880.[2]

Goodsir died on 27 April 1893.

Publications
  • Sacramental Catechism (1845)
  • The Divine Law Proceeds by Law (1868)
  • Seven Homilies on Ethnic Inspiration (1871)
  • The Westminster Confession of Faith
  • Dogmatic and Systematic Standards

References
  1. Michael T. Tracy (29 October 2014). "John Goodsir (1814–1867) A Scottish Anatomist and Pioneer of the Study of the Cell" (PDF). Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.


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