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Plaque

Philip and Edmund Gosse

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...

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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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