[1] Though born in Oxford, Harry Gosset spent most of his childhood in Ireland, where his father was statistician to the Guinness Brewery.

Subsequently, he became the first ever Casualty Officer at Hammersmith Hospital, then Senior House Physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where he had charge of many of the child inpatients.

[1] After a break spent travelling the world Gosset returned to St Thomas' Hospital for postgraduate study, qualifying as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1936.

In October 1947 he was appointed to be the first consultant paediatrician for Northampton General Hospital; he remained in this post until his death.

He wrote little but was a gifted teacher, and his Saturday morning rounds were attended by GPs and MOHs from town and country.