William Gosling
Olympic athlete
1869 – 1952
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Who was William Gosling?
William Sullivan Gosling was a British football player who competed in the 1900 Olympic Games.
He was the younger brother of Robert Gosling, both were educated at Eton and were members of a wealthy Essex family. William served with the Scots Guards in the Second Boer War and World War One. Upon his brother's death in 1922, he took over at the family's Hassiobury Farm estate near Bishops Stortford. He was appointed High Sheriff of Essex in 1927.
In Paris he won a gold medal as a member of Upton Park club team.
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