Zoologist. Born Worcester. 1827 sailed to Newfoundland where his interest in entomology began. He also travelled to Alabama and Jamaica studying the local natural sciences, returning to London in 1846. He was then one of the people who introduced aquariums to the viewing public. At one time a lay preacher, he rejected Darwin's evolution theory in his 1857 book 'Omphalos'. Father of Edmund.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Philip Henry Gosse
Commemorated ati
Philip and Edmund Gosse
Here lived Philip Henry Gosse, 1810 - 1888, zoologist. Sir Edmund Gosse, 1849...
Other Subjects
Canon Joseph Robinson
Joseph Robinson was born on 23 February 1927, the elder of the two children of Thomas Robinson and Mary Robinson née Wright. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1927 in the Wigan Registr...
1 memorial
Saint Monica
Born between 322 and 331. Known as Monica of Hippo she is assumed to have been born in Thagaste (present-day Souk Ahras), Algeria. Mother of Saint Augustine.
1 memorial
Holy Trinity Church Brook Green
Designed by William Wardell, its foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Wiseman in 1851. The need for the church grew from the indigenous Catholic population being boosted by Irish immigration in th...
1 memorial
Reverend Charles Alder Stubbs, B.A.
Charles Alder Stubbs was born in Canonbury, Islington, London, the fifth of the eight children of the Reverend Stewart Dixon Stubbs (1839-1919) and Mary Elizabeth Stubbs née Alder (1825-1869). His ...
1 memorial
St Georges Burial Ground
St. Georges Burial Ground was so used from 1731 to 1857.
1 memorial
Previously viewed
John Biggs
John Robert Biggs is a Labour Co-op politician who was the directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets 2015-22.
1 memorial
John Broad
Born Worcestershire. A ceramic artist he worked for Doultons of Lambeth. Bob Speel identifies other work in London: the grand pediment on Harrods, "a 1896 panel for the Reredos of St Ann's Church i...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them