Clarence Gosse

The Honourable Clarence Lloyd Gosse OC
25th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
In office October 1, 1973 – December 23, 1978
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governors General	Roland Michener Jules Léger
Premier	Gerald Regan John Buchanan
Preceded by	Victor de Bedia Oland
Succeeded by	John Elvin Shaffner
Personal details
Born	Clarence Lloyd Gosse (1912-10-20)October 20, 1912 Spaniard's Bay, Dominion of Newfoundland
Died	December 21, 1996(1996-12-21) (aged 84)

Clarence Lloyd Gosse OC (October 20, 1912 – December 21, 1996) was a Canadian physician and the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Born in Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland, he moved to Nova Scotia when he was ten. He graduated from the medical school of Dalhousie University in 1939. During World War II, serving in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, he was a member of one of the first surgical teams in the Battle of Normandy.

After the War, in Halifax, he was a Professor of Urology at Dalhousie University and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Victoria General and Camp Hill hospitals (now the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre).

He was Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1973 to 1978.

Awards and recognition

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In 1982, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

References

• A Guide to the Dr. Clarence Lloyd Gosse Collection
• Dr. Clarence Lloyd Gosse fonds

External links

• Portrait photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Gosse