John Holland Rose

English historian (1855–1942)

John Holland Rose
Born	28 June 1855 (1855-06-28) Bedford, England
Died	3 March 1942 (1942-03-04) (aged 86) Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Education	Bedford Modern School
Alma mater	Owen's College, Manchester Christ's College, Cambridge

John Holland Rose (28 June 1855 – 3 March 1942^[1])^[2] was an influential English historian who wrote famous biographies of William Pitt the Younger and of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He also wrote a history of Europe, entitled The Development of the European Nations among other historical works.^[3][4] He was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge between 1919 and his retirement in 1934.^[5][6]

Career

Holland Rose was born in Bedford in 1855.^[5] He was educated at Bedford Modern School where he was an exhibitioner,^[5] at Owens College, Manchester, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.^[7]

In 1911–1919, Holland Rose was a reader in modern history at the University of Cambridge.^[5] He was the first Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval History at the University of Cambridge between 1919 and his retirement in 1933.^[5] He was an honorary member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[8]

Holland Rose was the basis for C. P. Snow's fictional character M. H. L. Gay (see "Years of Hope: Cambridge, Colonial Administrator in the South Seas, and Cricket" by Philip Snow).

Family life

In 1880, Holland Rose married Laura K. Haddon; they had one son and two daughters.^[5]

He died on 3 March 1942.^[5]

Selected works

Wikisource has original works by or about:
John Holland Rose

• A Century of Continental History, 1780–1880 (London: E. Stanford, 1891; 2nd ed. 1906) read online
• The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, 1789–1815 (Cambridge University Press, 1894, 1904, 1919, 1925) read online
• The Rise of Democracy (London: Blackie and Son, 1897, 1904, 1912) read online
• The Rise and Growth of Democracy in Great Britain (Chicago: Stone, 1898) read online
• The Life of Napoleon I (2 vols.) (1902;^[9] 11th ed. 1935) read online
• The French Revolution: A History, by Thomas Carlyle (ed.) (London: G. Bell, 1902) read online
• Napoleonic Studies (London: G. Bell, 1904, 1914) read online
• Select Despatches from the British Foreign Office Archives, Relating to the Formation of the Third Coalition Against France, 1804–1805 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1904) read online
• The Development of the European Nations; 1870–1921 (6th ed.). New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1922. Retrieved 22 September 2018 – via Internet Archive. read online
• Dumouriez and the Defence of England Against Napoleon (with Alexander Meyrick Broadley) (London: J. Lane, 1908) read online
• A History of Malta During the Period of the French and British Occupations, 1798–1815 (by William Hardman) (ed. John Holland Rose) (London: Longman, Green and Company, 1909) read online
• William Pitt and National Revival (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911) read online
• William Pitt and the Great War (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911) read online
• The Personality of Napoleon: The Lowell Lectures for 1912 (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, 1930) read online
• Pitt and Napoleon: Essays and Letters (London: C. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912) read online
• How the War Came About. London: The Patriotic Publishing Co., 1914
• The Origins of War: Lectures Delivered in the Michaelmas Term, 1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1914) read online
• The Origins of the War, 1871–1914 (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915) read online
• Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Five Lectures by J. H. Rose, C. H. Herford, E. C. K. Gonner, and M. E. Sadler, with an introductory note by Viscount Haldane, ed. C.H. Herford (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1915) read online
• Nationality as a Factor in Modern History (London: Rivingtons, 1916) read online
• Nationality in Modern History (New York: Macmillan and Company, 1916) read online
• Why We Carry On (London: T.F. Unwin, 1918) read online
• Naval History and National History: The Inaugural Lecture Delivered to the University of Cambridge on Trafalgar Day, 1919 (Cambridge University Press, 1919) read online
• Lord Hood and the Defence of Toulon (University of Cambridge Press, 1922) read online
• The Indecisiveness of Modern War, and Other Essays (Kennikat Press, 1927) read online
• Contributor to The Thinkers of the Revolutionary Era (1930)^[8]
• The Mediterranean in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 1933) read online
• Man and the Sea: Stages in Maritime and Human Progress (W. Heffer and Sons, 1935) read online
• Co-editor of and contributor to The Cambridge History of the British Empire^[8]
• Chapters in The Cambridge Modern History (vols. viii and ix), and The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy (vol. i)^[8]
• Articles in English Historical Review, Edinburgh, Nineteenth Century and After, Contemporary Review, Cambridge Historical Journal, et al.^[8]

References

External links

• Works by John Holland Rose at Project Gutenberg
• Works by J. Holland Rose at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about John Holland Rose at Internet Archive