Person

Good, Peter (? - 1803)

Born
Scotland
Died
12 June 1803
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector

Summary

Peter Good was a gardener and foreman at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the 1790s. In 1795 he supervised the traffic of live plants to and from India for Kew. He was chosen to accompany the voyage of Investigator to the Antipodes, under the command of Matthew Flinders. Good's role was to assist the botanist, Robert Brown, in collecting plant specimens and seeds. The legume genus Goodia (Fabaceae) was named in his honour.

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  • Mabberley, R. D., 'Peter Good, d.1803' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Webb, Mark, 'Peter Good: gardener on a voyage of discovery' in Matthew Flinders and his scientific gentlemen: the expedition of HMS Investigator to Australia, 1801-05, Wege, Juliette, ed. (Perth: Werstern Australian Museum, 2006), pp. 97-103. Details

Edited Books

  • Edwards, P. I. ed., The journal of Peter Good, gardener on Matthew Flinders voyage to Terra Australia 1801-03 (London: British Museum (Natural History), 1981), 213 pp. Details
  • George, Alex S.; and Moore, David T. eds, Peter Good: Kew's gardener with Matthew Flinders on HMS Investigator, 1801 - 1803 (Kardinya, W.A.: Four Gables Press, 2022), 280 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Barker, Robyn M., 'The Botanical Legacy of 1802: South Australian Plants Collected by Robert Brown and Peter Good on Matthew Flinders' Investigator and by the French Scientists on Baudin's Géographe and Naturaliste', Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 21 (2007), 4-55. Details
  • Zuridis, Rosalind, 'Peter Good, plant hunter extraordinaire', New plantsman, 8 (3) (2001), 17-55. Details

Reviews

  • George, Alex S.; and Moore, David T., eds., Peter Good: Kew's gardener with Matthew Flinders on HMS Investigator, 1801 - 1803 (2022)
    Barker, Robyn, Archives of natural history, 51 (1), 202-4. Details

See also

  • Edwards, Phyllis, 'Botany of the Flinders voyage' in Plants and man in Australia, Carr, D. J.; and Carr S. G.M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 139-66. Details
  • Mabberley, D. J., Jupiter Botanicus: Robert Brown of the British Museum (Braunschweig: Verlag von J. Cramer, 1985), 500 pp. Details
  • Vallance, T. G.; Moore, D.T.; and Groves, E. W., Nature's Investigator: the Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805 (Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, 2001), 666 pp. Details
  • Wege, Juliette ed., Matthew Flinders and his scientific gentlemen: the expedition of HMS Investigator to Australia, 1801-05 (Perth: Western Australian Museum, 2006), 184 pp. Details

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