Henry Rose (priest)
Henry John Rose (3 January 1800 – 31 January 1873) was an English churchman, theologian of
Life
Born at
In the summer of 1834 Rose discharged the duties of his brother Hugh, who was in ill-health, as divinity professor in
Rose was a churchman of the conservative type, a collector of books, and an industrious writer. His library included many of Bishop George Berkeley's manuscripts, which he allowed Alexander Campbell Fraser to edit. He died on 31 January 1873, and was buried in the south-eastern angle of the churchyard at Houghton Conquest.
Works
His separate publications were just two:
- The Law of Moses in connection with the History and Character of the Jews, Hulsean Lectures, 1834, and
- Answer to the Case of the Dissenters, 1834.
He helped with his brother's edition of John Parkhurst's Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament (1829), and edited for him from about 1836 the British Magazine. For his brother he also edited the first volume of Rose's New General Biographical Dictionary, the preface being dated from Houghton Conquest in February 1840. He was one of the joint editors of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, and wrote portions of the work. In the cabinet edition of that encyclopædia his name is given as one of the authors of the History of the Christian Church from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day, and he reprinted in 1858 his article on Ecclesiastical History from 1700 to 1815.
He translated
Family
He married, at
References
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Notes
- ^ "Rose, Henry John (RS817HJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Rose, Henry John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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