Francis Gosling (1719?–1768)
Francis Gosling, bookseller (1741–3) at the Middle Temple Gate. Later a banker, sheriff, and alderman.
Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)
GOSLING, FRANCIS. Succeeded Robert Gosling at the Middle Temple Gate in 1741. He was elected Master of the Stationers' Company in 1756. About this time he gave up the bookselling business, and joined the firm of bankers which became famous as Gosling and Sharpe at the sign of the Three Squirrels in Fleet Street. As Sir Francis Gosling he became Sheriff of the City in 1758, but died at Fulham, 29 Dec, 1768, before he had reached the Mayoralty. ('Handbook of London Bankers,' by F. G. Hilton Price).
—Ambrose Heal, 3 October 1931