Inscription
Here lived Philip Henry Gosse, 1810 - 1888, zoologist.
Sir Edmund Gosse, 1849 - 1928, writer and critic born here.
Greater London Council
Site: Philip and Edmund Gosse (1 memorial)
N1, Mortimer Road, 56
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Philip and Edmund Gosse
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Sir Edmund Gosse
Born 13 Trafalgar Terrace (now 56 Mortimer Road), Hackney, son of Philip Goss...
Philip Henry Gosse
Zoologist. Born Worcester. 1827 sailed to Newfoundland where his interest i...
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Philip and Edmund Gosse
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Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
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