John Holland Rose (28 June 1855 in Bedford – 3 March 1942) 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 Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge between 1919 and his retirement in 1934.
Rose was born in Bedford in 1855. He was educated at Bedford Modern School where he was an exhibitioner, at Owen’s College, Manchester and at Christ's College, Cambridge.
In 1911-1919 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.
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).
In 1880 Rose married Laura K. Haddon; they had one son and two daughters.
He died on 3 March 1942.
A Century of Continental History, 1780-1880 (London: E. Stanford, 1891; 2nd ed. 1906) read onlineThe Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815 (Cambridge University Press, 1894, 1904, 1919, 1925) read onlineThe Rise of Democracy (London: Blackie and Son, 1897, 1904, 1912) read onlineThe Rise and Growth of Democracy in Great Britain (Chicago: Stone, 1898) read onlineThe Life of Napoleon I (2 vols.) (1902; 11th ed. 1935) read onlineThe French Revolution: A History, by Thomas Carlyle (ed.) (London: G. Bell, 1902) read onlineNapoleonic Studies (London: G. Bell, 1904, 1914) read onlineSelect 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 onlineThe Development of the European Nations (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905; 5th ed. 1915) read onlineDumouriez and the Defence of England Against Napoleon (with Alexander Meyrick Broadley) (London: J. Lane, 1908) read onlineA 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 onlineWilliam Pitt and National Revival (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911) read onlineWilliam Pitt and the Great War (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911) read onlineThe Personality of Napoleon: The Lowell Lectures for 1912 (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912, 1930) read onlinePitt and Napoleon: Essays and Letters (London: C. Belland Sons, Ltd., 1912) read onlineHow the War Came About. London: The Patriotic Publishing Co., 1914The Origins of War: Lectures Delivered in the Michaelmas Term, 1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1914) read onlineThe Origins of the War, 1871-1914 (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915) read onlineGermany 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 onlineNationality as a Factor in Modern History (London: Rivingtons, 1916) read onlineNationality in Modern History (New York: Macmillan and Company, 1916) read onlineWhy We Carry On (London: T.F. Unwin, 1918) read onlineNaval History and National History: The Inaugural Lecture Delivered to the University of Cambridge on Trafalgar Day, 1919 (Cambridge University Press, 1919) read onlineLord Hood and the Defence of Toulon (University of Cambridge Press, 1922) read onlineThe Indecisiveness of Modern War, and Other Essays (Kennikat Press, 1927) read onlineContributor to The Thinkers of the Revolutionary Era (1930)The Mediterranean in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 1933) read onlineMan and the Sea: Stages in Maritime and Human Progress (W. Hoffer and Sons, 1935) read onlineCo-editor of and contributor to The Cambridge History of the British EmpireChapters 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.
