Clarence Gosse

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Clarence Lloyd Gosse (1912 – December 21, 1996) was a Canadian physician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Born in 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 Hospital).

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

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

[edit] References

• A Guide to the Dr. Clarence Lloyd Gosse Collection

[edit] External links

• Portrait photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Gosse

Government offices
Preceded by Victor de Bedia Oland	Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia 1973–1978	Succeeded by John Elvin Schaffner