36 WILLIAM GOSSAGE 



respected, in society his manner was courteous 

 and refined, he was gifted with keen powers 

 of satire and of sarcasm, he was appreciative 

 of the services of others, and sought to 

 promote the education and improvement of 

 those around him ; his ambition appears to 

 have been to have dominion over the forces 

 of nature, rather than the acquisition of 

 wealth, or personal aggrandisement and 

 popularity. In the study of his work, 

 succeeding generations will discover how 

 much he achieved for them, how deserving of 

 preservation is the record of his inventions 

 and the story of his life, and how these may 

 still serve as an example that shall long be a 

 stimulus and an encouragement to others. 

 He died at Bowdon, in Cheshire, on the 9th 

 of April, 1877, and his last resting-place is in 

 Smithdown Lane Cemetery, Liverpool. 



