Background
The son of Robert and Elizabeth Sutherland, he was one of three surviving children of a family of eight, due to Smallpox and a drowning accident in Nova Scotia.
The son of Robert and Elizabeth Sutherland, he was one of three surviving children of a family of eight, due to Smallpox and a drowning accident in Nova Scotia.
He became a Geologist, Physician and an Author. In 1850 he embarked on a campaign to discover the fate of the HMS Erebus and Terror after a disastrous Polar expedition. lieutenant was on that expedition that he sailed under the command of Mr William Penny Registered Nurse onboard HMS Lady Franklin and Sophia and from which his book "Journal of a voyage in Baffin"s Bay and Barrow Straits" originated.
Doctor Sutherland was killed in a road accident on 30 November 1900 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
The campaign was largely a success as they discovered the fate of several crew members of the polar expedition buried at the winter base station.
