John Holland Rose (28 June 1855 – 3 March 1942) was an influential English historian who wrote famous biographies of William Pitt the Younger and of French emperor Napoleon I of France, 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 Exhibition (scholarship), exhibitioner,
at Victoria University of Manchester, 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 Imperial and Naval History, 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 Learning, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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.
He died on 3 March 1942.
Selected works
* ''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;
11th ed. 1935
* ''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
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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. Belland 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
* Contributor to ''The Thinkers of the Revolutionary Era'' (1930)
* ''The Mediterranean in the Ancient World'' (Cambridge University Press, 1933
read online* ''Man and the Sea: Stages in Maritime and Human Progress'' (W. Hoffer and Sons, 1935
read online* Co-editor of and contributor to ''The Cambridge History of the British Empire''
* Chapters in ''The Cambridge Modern History'' (vols. viii and ix), and ''The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy;; (vol. i)
* Articles in ''English Historical Review'', ''Edinburgh, Nineteenth Century and After'', ''Contemporary Review'', ''Cambridge Historical Journal'', et al.
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1855 births
1942 deaths
20th-century English historians
Historians of the Napoleonic Wars
Vere Harmsworth Professors of Imperial and Naval History
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
People educated at Bedford Modern School