William Gosling (footballer)

William Sullivan Gosling (19 July 1869 – 2 October 1952) was a British Army officer and football player who competed in the 1900 Olympic Games.[1]

William Gosling
Personal information
Full name William Sullivan Gosling
Date of birth (1869-07-19)19 July 1869
Place of birth Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire,
England
Date of death 2 October 1952(1952-10-02) (aged 83)
Place of death Saffron Walden, Essex, England
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Chelmsford
Upton Park
National team
1900 Great Britain Olympic 1 (0)
Olympic medal record
Men's football
Representing  Great Britain
1900 Paris Team competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Biography

Gosling was the younger brother of Robert Gosling, both were educated at Eton College and were members of a wealthy Essex family. He was commissioned a Second lieutenant in the Scots Guards on 4 March 1891, was promoted Lieutenant on 5 February 1896, and Captain on 7 October 1899. He served twice in the Second Boer War, with the 1st Battalion 1899–1900, when he took part in the march to Bloemfontein in March 1900; and secondly in 1902 when he was in command of reinforcements of 250 officers and men of the 3rd Battalion leaving Southampton in the transport Dilwara 15 April 1902 to arrive in South Africa the following month.[2] He was invalided home after contracting typhoid fever and after the war resigned his commission from the Scots Guards in 1903 when he transferred to the Essex Yeomanry, from which in turn he resigned in 1912.[3]

In about 1911 he purchased Marton Hall near Myddle, Shropshire and was living there until he returned to Essex although he owned the hall until his death. In World War I he returned to serve with the 3rd Battalion of the Scots Guards and was mainly stationed at their depot in Wellington Barracks, London although he was on duty for ten days in France in January 1917. He was demobilised in May 1919 with rank of Major.[3]

Upon his brother's death in 1922, he took over at the family's Hassiobury Farm estate near Bishops Stortford.[4] He was appointed J.P. in 1923, High Sheriff in 1927 and Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) in 1929 for the county of Essex.[5]

Gosling married, on 12 November 1903, Lady Victoria Alexandrina Alberta Kerr, fifth daughter of Schomberg Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian and a god-daughter of Queen Victoria,[6] and by her had four sons.[5]

In Paris he won a gold medal as a member of Upton Park club team.

References
  1. "William Gosling". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. "The War – The Reinforcements". The Times (36743). London. 16 April 1902. p. 11.
  3. The Men of Myddle Parish in the Great War 1914-1918, page 110, compiled and published by The Myddle War Memorial Restoration Committee (2018). As "Major W.S. Gosling" he is on the list of those who served and returned home from service.
  4. Menary, Steve (2010). GB United? : British Olympic Football and the End of the Amateur Dream. Durington: Pitch. ISBN 978-1905411924.
  5. Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain, 1952. Burke's Peerage Ltd. p. 1026.Family history titled "Gosling of Hassobury" (sic).
  6. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1904. Burke's Peerage Ltd. p. 990.Family history Marquess of Lothian.
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