Philip and Edmund Gosse plaque

The public map records this plaque for Philip and Edmund Gosse. Its recorded inscription reads: Here lived Philip Henry Gosse 1810–1888 Zoologist Sir Edmund Gosse 1849–1928 Writer and Critic born here

Philip Henry Gosse was a prominent zoologist and popularizer of natural science, known for his work on marine biology, while his son, Sir Edmund Gosse, is remembered as an influential literary critic and memoirist who authored "Father and Son," a seminal account of their complex relationship.