[1] Gosling entered the diplomatic service in 1859, and served as Secretary of Legation in Copenhagen from 1881, and in Madrid from 1885.
After a spell as Secretary of Embassy in St Petersburg 1888-90, he was posted to Latin America for the rest of his diplomatic career.
He resigned in late 1901, was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 1901 Birthday Honours list,[3] and invested as such by King Edward VII at Marlborough House on 28 December 1901.
He married secondly, in 1904, Augusta, Countess Posse (née de Hägerflycht), widow of Count Arvid Posse, a former Prime Minister of Sweden.
[1] Audley Charles Gosling died at Southsea on 7 December 1913.