Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 25 - Gosset
Gosset. — Isaac Gosset, Esq., died at Kensington, 28th November 1799, having nearly completed his eighty eighth year; he was the younger son of Isaac Gosset, of Jersey (See chapter xx.). He invented a composition of wax in which he modelled portraits in the most exquisite manner. His works were numerous, and included the royal family, and many of the nobility and gentry from the times of George II. down to 1780. In the line of his art he may be said to have been unique, as the inventor of the inimitable materials with which he worked, the secret of which was confided only to his son, the learned and Rev. Dr. Isaac Gosset.
Rev. Isaac Gosset, D.D., F.R.S., died in Newman Street, London, 16th December 1812, in his sixty-eighth year. As a learned man in many departments of literature besides Biblical Criticism, and also as a book-collector, he was well known. He was an eminent preacher, though incapacitated by the feebleness of his frame from much or frequent personal exertion. In his happier hours of social intercourse the disadvantages of his person disappeared in the graces of his conversation, which was sometimes serious and argumentative, sometimes playful and humorous. Buoyancy of spirits, joined to literary enthusiasm, operated as a sustaining principle against various bodily afflictions; and it never deserted him. He experienced no mental decay, but died in the full vigour of his intellectual faculties.