Clarence Gosse Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Clarence Lloyd Gosse
Order:25th
Office:Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
Predecessor:Victor de Bedia Oland
Successor:John Elvin Shaffner
Term Start:October 1, 1973
Term End:December 23, 1978
Governor General:Roland Michener
Jules Léger
Premier:Gerald Regan
John Buchanan
Birth Name:Clarence Lloyd Gosse
Birth Date:20 October 1912
Birth Place:Spaniard's Bay, Dominion of Newfoundland

Clarence Lloyd Gosse (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



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

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