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HUGH JAMES ROSE (1795—1838)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 729 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGH JAMES ROSE (1795—1838)  ,
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English divine, was born at Little Horsted in Sussex on the 9th of
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June 1795, and was educated at Uckfield school and at Trinity College, Cam-
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bridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1817, but missed a
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fellow-
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ship . Taking orders, he was appointed to Buxted, Sussex, in 1819, and to the vicarage of
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Horsham in 1821, He had already attained some repute as a critic, which was enhanced when, after travelling in Germany, he delivered as select preacher at Cambridge, four addresses against rationalism, published in 1825 as The State of the
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Protestant Religion in Germany . The
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book was severely criticized in Germany, and in England by E . B . Pusey . In 1827 Rose was collated to the prebend of Middleton; in 183o he accepted the rectory of
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Hadleigh, Suffolk, and in 1833 that of Fairsted, Essex, and in 1835 the perpetual curacy of St Thomas's,
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Southwark . In 1833—1834 he was professor of divinity at Durham, a
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post which
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ill-
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health forced him to resign . In 1836 he became editor of the
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Encyclopaedia Metropolitan, and he projected the New General
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Biographical
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Dictionary, a scheme carried through by his
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brother Henry John Rose (1800-1873) . He was appointed
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principal of King's College,
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London, in
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October 1836, but he was attacked by influenza, and after two years of ill-health he died at Florence on the 22nd of December 1838 . Rose was a high-churchman, who to propagate his views in 1832 founded the
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British
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Magazine and so came into touch with the leaders of the Oxford
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movement . Out of a
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conference at his rectory in Hadleigh came the Association of Friends of the Church, formed by R . H .

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Fronde and Wm . Palmer . See J . W . Burgon, Lives of Twelve Good Men (1891) .

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