in the north, and edited Claude-Joseph Drioux's "Sacred History, comprising the leading facts of the Old and New Testament". For many years he suffered so much that his friend, Rev. T.E. Gibson, wrote of him (Lydiate Hall and its Associations, Introd.): "A prey to disease during the greater part of his episcopate, his life was the struggle of a fearless soul with bodily ailments and with the harassing mental anxieties incidental to his position." Bishop Goss died suddenly at St. Edward's College on 3 October 1872, aged 58. There are two paintings of the bishop at St. Edward's College, Liverpool. References Sources Catholic Hierarchy: Alexander Goss 1814 births 1872 deaths People from Ormskirk Roman Catholic bishops of Liverpool Alumni of Ushaw College Roman Catholic titular bishops of Geras 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England English College, Rome alumni