Edmund Gosse

(1849 - 1928)

Edmund Gosse’s father, Philip Henry Gosse, published A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica in 1851 and two years later helped establish at Regent’s Park the first public aquarium. While working in the library of the British Museum in 1870, Edmund published his poems in the book Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets; only twelve of the 140 printed copies sold, but the ones he gave out impressed Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Gosse published a biography of the latter in 1917. He was knighted in 1925 and died in 1928.