Person
Goldie, Andrew (1840 - 1891)
- Born
- 24 May 1840
Kelburne, Ayrshire, Scotland - Died
- 20 November 1891
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - Occupation
- Naturalist and Merchant
Details
Born Kelburne, Ayrshire, Scotland, 24 May 1840. Died Port Moresby, 20 November 1891. Apprenticed as a gardener, migrated to Auckland 1862, nurseryman ca 1863-73, Britain 1874, Melbourne 1875, exploration in New Guinea 1876, exploration and collecting, New Guinea 1877, where he discovered and named the Goldie River and discovered traces of gold, explored south coast of New Guinea early 1878, named Blunden River, Milport Harbour, Glasgow Harbour, Sydney 1878 to have gold samples assayed, named the Redlick group of islands and discovered Teste Island in Freshwater Bay 1879, bought land near Hanubada, New Guinea and set up a trading store 1878, compensated by the government in 1886 when they decided to remove European settlement from the Hanubada area, by being given £400, 50 suburban acres and three town allotments on which he built Port Moresby's first store in January 1897.
Chronology
- 1862
- Life event - Arrived in New Zealand
- 1863 - 1873
- Career position - Nurseryman in New Zealand
- 1874
- Career position - Nurseryman in England
- 1875
- Career position - Nurseryman in Melbourne
- 1876 - 1878
- Career position - Exploration in New Guinea
- 1878
- Career position - Storekeeper in New Guinea
- 1879
- Career position - Named the Redlick group of islands and discovered Teste Island in Freshwater Bay
- January 1887
- Built Port Moresby's first store
Related entries
Colleague
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller - Records, 1862 - 1873, ML MSS 562; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Gibbney, H. J., 'Goldie, Andrew (1840-1891), naturalist and merchant' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), pp. 259-260. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040293b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Davies, Susan M., 'Catalogue of Papuan Artefacts Associated with Andrew Goldie in the Queensland Museum and the Museum of the Cumbraes, Millport, Scotland', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture, 6 (2012), 163-208. Details
- Davies, Susan M., 'Andrew Goldie: His Ethnological Collecting and Collections', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture, 6 (2012), 129-61. Details
- Goldie, Andrew, 'A journey in the interior of New Guinea from Port Moresby', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 22 (3) (1878), 219-23. Details
- Moore, Clive and Mullins, Steve eds, 'Andrew Goldie's' Memoir: 1875-1879', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture, 6 (2012), 39-127. Details
- Mullins, Steve, Bellamy, Martin and Moore, Clive eds, 'Andrew Goldie in New Guinea 1875 - 1879: Memoir of a Natural History Collector', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture, 6 (2012), 1-216. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535588. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/241144647699600048247. Details
- 'Goldie, Andrew (1840-1891)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467081. Details
Reviews
- Mullins, Steve, Bellamy, Martin and Moore, Clive eds, eds., Andrew Goldie in New Guinea 1875 - 1879: memoir of a natural history collector (2012)
Gillespie, Kirsty, Queensland Review, 21 (1), (2014), 114-5. Details - Mullins, Steve, Bellamy, Martin and Moore, Clive eds, eds., Andrew Goldie in New Guinea 1875 - 1879: Memoir of a Natural History Collector (2012)
Philip, Jude, Journal of Pacific History, 48, (2013), 347-8. Details
See also
- Ballard, Chris, 'Explorers & Co. in interior New Guinea, 1872 - 1928' in Brokers and boundaries: colonial exploration in Indigenous territory, Shellam, Tiffany; Nugent, Maria; Konishi, Shino; and Cadzow, Allison, eds (Canberra: ANU Press, 2016), pp. 185-2112. Details
- Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J., Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 (Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff NV, 1950), clii, 639 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 19 December 2006
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