Isaac Gosset (chaplain)
Isaac Gosset may refer to: * Isaac Gosset (bibliographer) (1745–1812), English bibliographer * Isaac Gosset (sculptor) (1713–1799), sculptor and wax-modeller * Isaac Henry Gosset Isaac Henry Gosset (1907-1965) was a British consultant paediatrician. Early life Harry Gosset was the son of statistician William Sealy Gosset and sportswoman Marjory Gosset, née Phillpotts. His paternal grandfather Frederic Gosset, a colone ...

Isaac Gosset (bibliographer)
Isaac Henry Gosset FRS (1745–1812) was an English bibliographer, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 18 June 1772. Life Born in Berwick Street, Soho, London, in 1735 or 1736, he was the only son of the sculptor Isaac Gosset (1713-1799). After attending Dr. Walker's academy at Mile End, he matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, 25 February 1764. He graduated B.A. 10 October 1767, M.A. 27 June 1770, and went out grand compounder for the degrees in divinity 7 November 1782. Gosset was short of stature and suffered from poor health. He was also deformed in a way that exposed him to abuse, and was not able to make a career. He became a character to whom anecdotes attached, and in literature. He did preach charity sermons, and some of his biblical criticism survived him. Book collector While still young, Gosset collected books, especially early classics, grammars, and theological works. In London auction rooms he was subjected to gibes of his from Michael Lort, and ridiculed ...
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Isaac Gosset (sculptor)
Isaac Henry Gosset (1713–1799) was an 18th-century sculptor and wax-modeller. Life He was born in St Helier on the Isle of Jersey on 2 May 1713,the sixth son of Jean Gosset. His parents had fled from Normandy around 1700 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. These incomers were known as Huguenots. He was sent to London to train with his elder brother Gideon Gosset under their paternal uncle, Matthew Gosset (1683-1744), a wax-modeller and frame-carver, and member of the Spalding Society. The Gosset company supplied frames to William Hogarth and Thomas Gainsborough. The wax used was of his own recipe and was highly praised in his field. He exhibited at the Society of Arts (which linked to the Incorporated Society of Artists) and Free Society from 1760 to 1778. Josiah Wedgwood also contracted him as a modeller to produce cameos. Henry Hoare was a huge fan of his works and collected a substantial number from 1753 to 1755 which were (and are) displayed at Stourhead. H ...
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