Gosset, who published under the name "Student", worked for the Guinness brewery in Dublin for close to 30 years, ending as head of their scientific staff. He is best known for inventing the t -test for dealing with small, normally distributed samples and he used it for quality control in brewing. He was, along with his tutor and mentor Karl Pearson, one of the first of a group of serious mathematicians who became the founders of modern theoretical statistics. As a scholar of New College he obtained a first in Mathematics Moderations followed by a first in Chemistry finals. He also loved sailing and fishing and was the inventor of a self-propelled craft described in the Field of 28 March 1936.