Major-General Sir William Gosset (18 January 1782 – 27 March 1848) was a British Army officer and public servant.

Biography

Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1798, Gosset was secretary to William à Court's mission to the Barbary States in 1813, Member of Parliament for

Truro Truro (; kw, Truru) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its population was 18,766 in the 2011 census. People of Truro ...

from 1820 to 1826, secretary to Lord Anglesey as

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from 1827 to 1828, private secretary to Anglesey as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1828 to 1829,

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from 1831 to 1835 and

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from 1835 until his death.David R. Fisher
GOSSET, William (1782-1848), of Round Ward, nr. Truro, Cornw. and 64 Harley Street, Mdx.
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: the House of Commons 1820-1832'' (2009).

References

1782 births 1848 deaths UK MPs 1820–1826 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Truro Royal Engineers officers British Army major generals Knights Bachelor Under-Secretaries for Ireland Serjeants-at-Arms of the British House of Commons {{England-UK-MP-stub