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 rectory of Hadleigh, Suffolk, which he resigned in 1833. In 1834 he was instituted to the rectory of Fairsted, Essex, and in 1835 to the perpetual curacy of St. Thomas's, Southwark. The former living he resigned on 4 Jan. 1837, the latter he held until his death.

Rose was a firm but cautious high-churchman, and desired the restoration of the ancient Anglican doctrines and practices. To propagate his views he founded in 1832 the ‘British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information,’ of which he was the first editor, and he helped Archdeacon Lyall [see ] to edit the ‘Theological Library.’ During a visit to Oxford in quest of contributors for his magazine, he established relations with John Henry Newman [q. v.], William Palmer (1803–1885) [q. v.] of Worcester College, Richard Hurrell Froude [q. v.], John Keble [q. v.], and Arthur Philip Perceval [q. v.]; and towards the end of July 1833 Palmer, Perceval, and Froude visited him at Hadleigh, and discussed the ecclesiastico-political situation. Though no definite plan was then concerted, the Association of Friends of the Church was soon afterwards formed by Froude and Palmer; and hence the ‘Hadleigh conference’ is an important landmark in the early history of the Tractarian movement. In the movement itself Rose took little part, though in its earlier phases it commanded his sympathy. He contributed leaders to the ‘British Magazine,’ and endeavoured by correspondence at first to guide and afterwards to moderate its course.

In the autumn of 1833 he was appointed to the chair of divinity at the university of Durham, which ill-health compelled him to resign in the following year, after he had delivered no more than three lectures, including his inaugural address. In the spring of 1834 Archbishop Howley made him his domestic chaplain. In 1836 he succeeded Edward Smedley as editor of the ‘Encyclopædia Metropolitana;’ and about the same time he projected the ‘New General Biographical Dictionary,’ the first volume of which appeared after his death under the editorship of his brother, Henry John Rose [q. v.], in 1839. Although the words ‘projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose’ appear on each of the twelve volumes of the undertaking, Rose was not actively concerned in its production. It proved a perfunctory performance (cf. caustic tract On the New Biographical Dictionary, 1839). On 21 Oct. 1836 Rose succeeded Dr. William Otter as principal of King's College, London. He had hardly entered on his new duties when he was prostrated by an attack of influenza, from the effects of which he never rallied. He left England in October 1838 to winter in Italy, reached Florence, and there died on 22 Dec. His remains were interred in the protestant cemetery on the road to Fiesole. A mural tablet, with a relief of his profile, is in King's College chapel. No good portrait of Rose exists (but see a print from a crayon sketch in Lives of Twelve Good Men, ed. 1891). His preaching is described by admiring contemporaries as peculiarly impressive.

Rose married, on 24 June 1819, Anna Cuyler, daughter of Captain Peter Mair of Hill House, Richmond, Yorkshire, by whom he had no issue.

Rose's reputation for Greek scholarship rests upon: 1. ‘Inscriptiones Græcæ Vetustissimæ. Collegit et Observationes tum aliorum tum suas adjecit Hugo Jacobus Rose, M.A.,’ Cambridge, 1825, 8vo; a work to which Boeckh (‘Corpus Inscript. Græc.,’ Berlin, 1828, vol. i. pp. xi, xx, xxvi) acknowledges obligation. 2. His edition of Parkhurst's ‘Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament,’ London, 1829, 8vo. 3. His edition of Bishop Middleton's ‘Doctrine of the Greek Article applied to the Criticism and Illustration of the New Testament,’ London, 1833, 8vo.

His contributions to Christian apologetics are: 1. ‘Christianity always Progressive,’ London, 1829, 8vo. 2. ‘Brief Remarks on the Disposition towards Christianity generated by prevailing Opinions and Pursuits,’ London, 1830, 8vo. 3. ‘Eight Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge at Great St. Mary's in the Years 1830 and 1831. To which is added a Reprint of a Sermon preached before the University on Commencement Sunday, 1826,’ Cambridge, 1831, 8vo. 4. ‘Notices of the Mosaic Law: with some Account of the Opinions of recent French Writers concerning it,’ London, 1831, 8vo. 5. ‘The Gospel an Abiding System. With some Remarks on the New Christianity of the St. Simonians,’ London, 1832, 8vo. He also printed his two Durham divinity lectures, viz.: (1) ‘An Apology for the Study of Divinity;’ (2) ‘The Study of Church History recommended,’ London, 1834.

[Burgon's Lives of Twelve Good Men; Gent. Mag. 1839 i. 319, 1844 ii. 216; Rose's New Biogr. Dict.; Sussex Archæolog. Collect. xii. 18, xx. 75, 86; Mozley's Reminiscences, chiefly of Oriel College, &c., chap. xlviii.; Newman's Apologia, chap. ii.; Palmer's Narrative of Events connected with the publication of Tracts for the