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* KOSE. 2'.t3 ROSEBERY. ROSE, Sir John (1820-88). A Caiiiuliaii statesman, born at Turriff, in Aberdecnsliire, yiotland. He was educated in King's College, Aberdeen, and in 1830 emigrated to Lower Can- ada. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar in ^Montreal, quiekly gained a hirge practice, and in 1848 was made Queen's counsel. In !Sli4 he was conunissioner on behalf of (Jreat ISritiiin for the settlement of claims arising out of the Oregon treaty with the United States. Three years later he was returned to Parliament, and was ilinister of Finance from that year until 1809, when he removed to England. In 1870 he was sent by the British Government to Washington on a mission relative to the Alabama claims. His efforts resulted in an informal convention, out of which grew the famous Treaty of Yashington. He was created a baronet in 187"2, and in 1880 became a jJi'i^')' coiuicilor. ROSE, John Holland (1855—). An English historian. He was born at Bedford and studied at Owens College, Manchester, and at Christ College, Cambridge. He graduated (B.A.) at Cambridge in 1879, and became lecturer on mod- ern history to the Cambridge and London So- cieties for University E.xtension. Aside from numerous articles in tlie English Historical Re- viric and the ilontlily Jy'erieic, his more important publications are The Kevolutionury and Napole- oitic Era (1894), The Rcifiii of Queen Victo-ria ( 1897 ), The Rise of Democraey ( 1897 ) , and Life of yapoleon /., Includinfi ^etf Materials from the British Official Records ( 1902), the last being up to the time of its publication the best bal- anced and most satisfactory life of Napoleon in English. ROSE, ro'zc, V.LENTIN (1829—). A German classical philologist and paleographer; son of Gustav Rose. He was born in Berlin, studied there and at Bonn, and at twenty-six entered the employ of the Berlin Royal Library, in which he became head of the department of manuscripts. He published a list of the Latin manuscripts in this library (1893, 1901 et seq.). He edited many classical works, especially on medicine, either before unedited or lacking critical treatment of the text. Among these are Aristoteles Pseudepi- ffraphus (1803; 3d ed. 1880), Afiecdofa Cfrceca et Grcccolatina ( 1864-70), Vitruvius (with Miiller- Strubing, 1807; 2d ed. 1899). Anaci-eontea (2d ed. IS'fO), Anihimns (1877), Cassiiis Felix (1879), and Soranus (1882). ROSE, William Stewart (1775-1843). An English poet and translator. He was educated at Eton, obtained a seat in Parliament (1796). and the position of reading clerk of the House of Lords (1800). Coming under the influence of the romantic revival, he published a verse translation of the first three books of Amadis of Gaul (1803), not directly from the Spanish original, but from Herberay's French version. The same year he made the acquaintance of Sir Walter Scott, who visited him at his villa of Gundimore on the Hampshire coast, and ad- dressed to him the first canto of JSIarmiou. In 1807 appeared a translation from the French of Partenopcx of Blois and a ballad entitled The Red Kiini, which were followed by two other bal- lads. The Crusade of .S7, Leu-is. and Kinfr Edward the Martyr (1810). In 1817 Rose settled in Venice, where he began his well-known translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1823- 31; reissued in Hohn's Library, 18.")8l. His last publication was a volume of Rhiinn's (1837). ROSE'BERY, ARrniBAi.n I'liii.ii' I'kimrosk, fifth F.arl of ( 18-17-). An Kngiish Blatesmun. He was born in London, and was ediienled at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. He left college in 18t)8 before grailuating. and took Iiih seat in the House of Lords, having Huceeeded to the Earldom of Kosebery on the death of his grandfather, Archibald .lohn Prinno.se. In Par- liament he allied himself at once with the Lil)eral Party, and became an anient supporter of Gladstone. In 1878 his marriage to llanmili Rothscliild, daughter of Baron HotliMhild, brought him powerful and influential friends in the financial world. In the same year he was made lord rector of Aberdeen University, and in 1880 he was chosen lord rector of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh. In August, 1881. he accepted his first otlicial appointment, that of Under Secretary of Slate for Home .Mfairs un- der Sir William N'ernon llaroourt. His identi- fication with the (Gladstone Administration ter- minated in 1883, however, when he resigned as a result of the hostile criticism of some members of his party who objected to a peer holding such an office. Toward the end of 1884 he accepted the post of First Conunissioner of Works, with a seat in the Cabinet. He left olliee with his col- leagues in June, 1885. In the short-lived Ministry of (ladstone, which began in February, 1880, he held the otlice of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and exliiliitcd in the administration of that department unusual ability and skill. The years spent out of ollice succeeding the fall of the Gladstone Ministry Lord Rosebery spent in travel and study, adding greatly to his reputation as an orator and political leader, in 1888 he received the degree of LL.D. from Cambridge, and in 1889 was elected a member and the first chairman of the London County Council, holding olfice until June, 1890, and again for a few monlh> in 1892. During a retirement in 1891. following the death of LacW Rosebery. he coniplcteil his Life of Wil- liam Pitt, in the "Twelve English Statesmen" Series. L^pon the return of Gladstone to power in August, 1892, Lord Rosebery again became Foreign Secretary. The principal features of his foreign policy were his insistence on British con- trol in the Upper Nile Valley and Uganda, and his advocacy of the friendly pidicy subsc(iuently adopted by Lord Salisbury in regard to the growth of the .Japanese jiower in the Far East. In March. 1894, on the retirement of (JIadstone. Lord Rosebery became Prime Jlinister. His personal popularity', however, did not avail to maintain his Ministrv. and on June 24. 1895. the Govern- ment was defeated. On October 8, 1890, Lord Roscberv. finiling himself opposed to the foreign policy generally adopted by (Iladstone and other former leaders of the ])arty. fornmlly resigned his leadership. In the succeeding years he adopted the policy of 'plowing his furrow aloiu'." ar. he phrased it, holding aloof from Liberal politics. He supported Salisbury's stand in the Fnshoda incident, and the prosecution of the war in South Africa, although as the war progressed he bitter- ly criticised its eonduet. and urged the necessity of radical army refonn. In addition to his Wil- liam Pitt his principal published writings arc: Speeches 1S7H>H (lSi'8); t<>r Robert Peel