John Holland Rose
John Holland Rose 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. He was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge between 1919 and his retirement in 1934.
Career
Holland Rose was born in Bedford in 1855. He was educated at Bedford Modern School where he was an exhibitioner, at Owens College, Manchester, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.In 1911–1919, Holland Rose was a reader in modern history at the University of Cambridge. He was the first Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval History at the University of Cambridge between 1919 and his retirement in 1933. He was an honorary member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Holland Rose was the basis for C. P. Snow's fictional character M. H. L. Gay.
Family life
In 1880, Holland Rose married Laura K. Haddon; they had one son, Charles and two daughters.He died on 3 March 1942.
Selected works
A Century of Continental History, 1780–1880 The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, 1789–1815 The Rise of Democracy The Rise and Growth of Democracy in Great Britain The Life of Napoleon I The French Revolution: A History, by Thomas Carlyle Napoleonic Studies Select Despatches from the British Foreign Office Archives, Relating to the Formation of the Third Coalition Against France, 1804–1805 Dumouriez and the Defence of England Against Napoleon A History of Malta During the Period of the French and British Occupations, 1798–1815 William Pitt and National Revival William Pitt and the Great War The Personality of Napoleon: The Lowell Lectures for 1912 Pitt and Napoleon: Essays and Letters How the War Came About. London: The Patriotic Publishing Co., 1914The Origins of War: Lectures Delivered in the Michaelmas Term, 1914 The Origins of the War, 1871–1914 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 Nationality as a Factor in Modern History Nationality in Modern History Why We Carry On Naval History and National History: The Inaugural Lecture Delivered to the University of Cambridge on Trafalgar Day, 1919 Lord Hood and the Defence of Toulon The Indecisiveness of Modern War, and Other Essays- Contributor to The Thinkers of the Revolutionary Era The Mediterranean in the Ancient World Man and the Sea: Stages in Maritime and Human Progress
- Co-editor of and contributor to The Cambridge History of the British Empire
- Chapters in The Cambridge Modern History, and The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy
- Articles in English Historical Review, Edinburgh, Nineteenth Century and After, Contemporary Review, Cambridge Historical Journal, et al.