Born 13 Trafalgar Terrace (now 56 Mortimer Road), Hackney, son of Philip Gosse. Writer, best known for his book ‘Father and Son’ which is partly autobiographical and depicts the new generation freeing itself from the old. A successful lecturer and friend of many of the literary and artistic figures of his age. Knighted 1925. Died 50 Weymouth Street.
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Sir Edmund Gosse
Here lived Philip Henry Gosse, 1810 - 1888, zoologist. Sir Edmund Gosse, 1849...
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Sir Edmund Gosse
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Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Paranormal, USA
Saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Franciscan killed by the Nazis in 1941.
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Chair of Lady Workers' Homes Ltd in 1936. A founding member of the Holly Lodge Estate Committee, a plot holder and a Trustee.
Left to right these busts are: Cunningham, Jellicoe and Beatty, that well known legal firm. (Unusually there is an error in the Margaret ...
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