The Rev. C. H. Gosset, Vicar of Merivale, was born at Northam, North Devon, England, in 1851, and was educated at Clifton College, and at St. Andrew's University, Scotland. He was ordained deacon in 1877 at Wellington by Bishop Hadfield, and afterwards appointed assistant curate at Masterton, where he remained from 1877 to 1880, when he was appointed to Banks' Peninsula. Mr. Gosset was curate of Rangiora and Woodend from 1881 till 1883, and in 1887 became vicar of Woodend, Ashley and Loburn. He was appointed vicar of Heathcote in 1891, and chaplain of the Jubilee Home in 1896.