GOSSE,+Edmund+William+(Sir)

GOSSE, Sir Edmund William (1849-1928) British Museum 1865-1975; CL House of Lords 1904-1914 A literary journalist, man of letters and Scandinavian scholar, he spent the years between 1875 and 1904 briefly with the Board of Trade and, later, as a controversial lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. His autobiographical //Father and son// (1907) is a literary classic.