Alexander Gosman

Alexander Gosman (21 February 1829 – 15 January 1913) was a Congregational minister in Victoria, Australia.

History Gosman was born in Crail, Scotland, son of John Gosman and Catherine Gosman, née Auchterlonie. He attended local schools and after three years in business started teaching in Dundee and Greenock, followed by Glasgow High School and the Glasgow Asylum for the Blind, where he also served as pastor. In 1850 he entered the University of Glasgow and studied for the ministry at the Congregational Theological Hall. He was ordained as a Congregational minister at Haddington, East Lothian in 1855.

In 1860 he was sent to Australia by the Colonial Missionary Society, arrived at Melbourne on 21 September 1860, and began preaching at the Ballarat Congregational Church a month later.

In 1863 he was called to the Independent Church, Alma Road, St Kilda.

From 1878 to 1905 he was pastor of the Congregational Church at Hawthorn, Victoria. dismissed as a case of mistaken identity. eldest daughter married John Livingstone, later of Cardiff, Wales. Catherine Auchterlonie "Katie" Gosman (c. 1859 – 15 April 1895) married Thomas Underwood Groube on 20 September 1882. Janie Buchanan Gosman married William Warren Kerr on 7 April 1887. William Alexander Gosman (c. 1866 – 30 December 1940) married Gliezs Grindlay on 28 March 1900; they had two daughters. He has been named as a co-founder of Camberwell Grammar School with Alfred S. Hall, acting as co-principals 1891–1897. He was assistant metallurgist for Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company at Queenstown, Tasmania c. 1910–1940.