A skilled engineer and surveyor he did much work on the original British Ordnance Survey .
Major - General William Driscoll Gosset FRSE ( 1822 -- 1899 ) , also Gossett , was a British Army officer serving in the Royal Engineers .
A skilled engineer and surveyor William Driscoll Gosset FRSE did much work on the original British Ordnance Survey .
Major - General William Driscoll Gosset FRSE ( 1822 -- 1899 ) , also Gossett , was a British Army officer serving in the Royal Engineers .