Charles Hose

Charles Hose FRGS FZS DSc (12 October 1863 – 14 November 1929) was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.[1]

Life and career

Hose was the son of Rev. Thomas Charles Hose, grandson of Rev. Frederick Hose and nephew of the Right Rev. Bishop George Frederick Hose. He was born in Willian, Hertfordshire, England,[2][3] and was educated at Felsted[4] in Essex. Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1882, he almost immediately migrated to Jesus College, and later left Cambridge without taking a degree.[5] He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak, where his uncle George Hose was the Anglican bishop, by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884. His large collection of ethnographic objects from Borneo was purchased by the British Museum in 1905.[6]

Hose retired in 1907 and moved back to England. He visited Sarawak again in 1909 and 1920. During World War I, he served as superintendent of His Majesty's Explosives Factory in King's Lynn, Norfolk from 1916 to 1919.[7]

Hose was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a fellow of the Zoological Society of London. He was conferred an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Cambridge in 1900 and made an honorary fellow of Jesus College in 1926.[2]

Hose died on 14 November 1929 after an operation at a nursing home in Croydon, South London.[3][8] He was interred at Bandon Hill Cemetery.[2]

Animal species named after Hose

Several species named to commemorate his work[9] as zoologist:

Amphibians

Birds

Fish

Mammals

Insects

  • The stick insect: Hermagoras hosei Kirby, 1896 - endemic to Borneo.
  • The cockroach: Dorylaea hosei (Shelford, 1909).

Places named after Hose

Place

Bibliography

Books authored by Charles Hose include:

See also

  • Category:Taxa named by Charles Hose

References

  1. ^ Haddon, A. C. (20 November 1929). "Obituary: Dr. Charles Hose". Nature. 124 (3135): 845. doi:10.1038/124845a0.
  2. ^ a b c Venn, J. A. (1947). Alumni cantabrigienses. Vol. III. Cambridge, England: The University Press. p. 450. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Hose, Charles". Flora Malesiana. Vol. 8. 1950. p. 46. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  4. ^ "Hose, Charles". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 877–878.
  5. ^ "Hose, Charles (HS882C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ^ British Museum Collection
  7. ^ Parkinson, Jonathan (20 February 2018). The China Station, Royal Navy: A History as seen through the careers of the Commanders in Chief, 1864–1941. Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 293. ISBN 978-1788035-217. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  8. ^ Blagden, C. Otto (March 1930). "Dr. Charles Hose, October 12th, 1863—November 14th, 1929". Man. Vol. 30. p. 49. JSTOR 2790825. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  9. ^ [1] A Zoological 'Who was Who' by Mike Grayson
  10. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families LEPTOBARBIDAE, XENOCYPRIDIDAE and TINCIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
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