John Goss
1787–1833
Schoolmaster. Born in Hatherleigh, Devon. Performed crossing experiments on peas.
Sources
England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 5 January 2015)
Goss 1822
Registers of births, marriages and deaths surrendered to the non-parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857 (RG4/1214), General Register Office, England
Bibliography
Goss, John. 1822. On the variation in the colour of peas, occasioned by cross impregnation. [Read 15 October 1822.] Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 5 (1824): 234–7.
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