Physician and Swedenborgian minister. Curator of the Museum of the Glasgow Phrenological Society. Author of A manual Detailing the System of Instruction Pursued at the Infant School, Bristol 1824, “Acquisitiveness: its uses and abuses” –1837 and “My battle for Life.The Autobiography of a Phrenologist” 1857 and also “Facing Up to Reality” , “Swedenborg and His Mission” and “Lectures on Freemasonry”.

see:
https://archive.org/details/mybattleforlifea00goyd