Philip Gosse

Philip Henry George Gosse (1879–1959) was an English general practitioner who also wrote on natural history. Archive records at Cambridge describe him specifically as a doctor and writer on natural history, and they preserve family papers and letters connected with the Gosse family.

He also wrote books with a wider historical reach. Library of Congress records identify him as the author of The Pirates' Who's Who (1924), and library catalog records show that A Naturalist Goes to War was a 1942 edition of his memoir first published as Memoirs of a Camp-Follower.

Later reference material describes him as a historian and collector with a strong interest in piracy, and that side of his work is still the one many readers know best today through The History of Piracy and related books. He was the son of Sir Edmund Gosse, linking him to a family already well known in British literary life.