Dr Isaac Henry Gosset

Isaac Henry Gosset (1907–1965) was a British consultant paediatrician.

Early life Harry Gosset was the son of statistician William Sealy Gosset and sportswoman Marjory Gosset, née Phillpotts. His paternal grandfather Frederic Gosset, a colonel in the Royal Engineers, was of Huguenot stock. His maternal grandfather James Surtees Phillpotts was headmaster of Bedford School. Though born in Oxford, Harry Gosset spent most of his childhood in Ireland, where his father was statistician to the Guinness Brewery. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and at Rugby School where he had won an entry exhibition to read classics. He then went on to study natural sciences at Magdalen College, Oxford University, graduating BA in 1929. He completed his medical formation at St Thomas' Hospital, London, in 1933. for inventing a simple diagnostic device called the Gosset Icterometer, and for masterminding the establishment of a new Unit for Premature Babies at Northampton General, which was named the Gosset Ward in his memory.

An obituary notice described Gosset as follows:

The most modest and patient of men, he was completely dedicated to paediatrics. His knowledge was profound and it was a delight to see him handle a sick child. He wrote little but was a gifted teacher, and his Saturday morning rounds were attended by GPs and MOHs from town and country.