William Driscoll Gosset

W. D. Gosset
6th Surveyor General of Ceylon
In office
1855–1858
Preceded byW. H. Simms
Succeeded byCharles Sims
Personal details
Born13 April 1822
Charleville, Ireland[1]
Died19 May 1899 (aged 77)[2]
Kensington, London, England

Major-General William Driscoll Gosset FRSE (13 April 1822 – 19 May 1899), also Gossett, was a British Army officer serving in the Royal Engineers.[3][4] A skilled engineer and surveyor, he did much work on the original British Ordnance Survey.

  1. ^ UK, Regimental Registers of Service, 1756-1900
  2. ^ "Deaths". Army and Navy Gazette. 27 May 1899. p. 10. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  3. ^ J. F. Bosher (April 2010). Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950. Xlibris Corporation. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-4500-5963-3.
  4. ^ Ross, Victor; Trigge, Arthur St. L. (1920). A History of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, with an account of the other banks which now form part of its organization. Vol. I. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 463. Retrieved 9 April 2016 – via Internet Archive.