John Holland Rose
John Holland Rose.
John Holland Rose (1855-1942)[1] was an influential English historian who wrote a famous biography of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and also wrote a history of Europe, entitled The Development of the European Nations among other historical works. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and Christ's College, Cambridge.[2] From 1919 to 1934 he was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History in the University of Cambridge.
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.)
Selected works
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- How the War Came About. London: The Patriotic Publishing Co., 1914.
References
- ↑ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8321855?q&sort=holdings+desc&_=1400693395759&versionId=36532284
- ↑ "Who's Who, 1935", Published by A&C Black Limited, 1935
External links
- Works by John Holland Rose at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Holland Rose at Internet Archive
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