GOSS

Most Rev. Alexander . b. Ormskirk, Lancs. 5 July 1814; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 1827–39; studied at English coll. Rome 1839–42; vice pres. of St. Edward’s coll. Everton, Liverpool 16 Jany. 1843 (date of opening) to 21 June 1853; bishop of Gerra in part i bus . and co-adjutor bishop of Liverpool 29 July 1853, bishop 25 Jany. 1856 to death, consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman 25 Sep. 1853; edited for Chetham Soc. Abbot’s Journal and The trials at Manchester in 1694 , 1864, and for Manx Soc. The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys 2 vols. 1874. d. St. Edward’s college 3 Oct. 1872. bur. St. Sepulchre’s cemetery, Ford 8 Oct. Gillow’s English Catholics ii , 535–40 (1885); Brady’s Episcopal Succe ion iii , 418–22 (1877).