The son of Richard Rosser, a perfumer and neighbour of William Godwin; he was educated at Peterhouse and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge (B.A. 1823. He was Godwin's pupil and an acquaintance of Jeremy Bentham before going to Cambridge. He drowned while on a visit to Paris.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Henry Blanch Rosser:

The Question of Population: particularly as it relates to the Increase of Numbers in the Inhabitants of the United States, carefully examined and fully considered: being a Detection of the Gross Blunders and Absurdities of the Article on Mr. Godwin's Enquiry concerning Population, which appeared in the seventeenth number of the Edinburgh Review.