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'''Herbert Jennings Rose'''
{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name         = Herbert Jennings
| name               = Rose
| honorific_prefix   = 
| honorific_suffix   = MA FBA
| image              = File:Rose,_Herbert_Jennings.jpg
| birth_date         = 1883
| death_date         = 1961
| address            = 2111 Park Avenue, Montreal, Canada<br />840 Lorne Crescent, Montreal, Canada [1913]<br />27 Pine Avenue Apartments, Pine Avenue, Montreal, Canada [1915]<br />University College of Wales, Aberystwyth [1919]<br />Edgecliff East, The Scores, St Andrews, Fife [1929]<br />17 South Street, St Andrews, Fife [census]<br />United College, St Andrews, Fife [1949]
| occupation         = academic
| elected_ESL        = 
| elected_ASL        = 
| elected_AI         = 1911.05.03
| elected_APS        = 
| elected_LAS        = 
| membership         = ordinary fellow
| left               = 1961 deceased
| clubs              = 
| societies          = British Academy<br />Folklore Society<br />Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
1911.03.21 proposed by R.R. Marett, seconded by T.A. Joyce<br /><br />1961.10.05 death noted
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Herbert Jennings Rose FBA (5 May 1883, Orillia – 31 July 1961, St Andrews) is remembered as the author of A Handbook of Greek Mythology, originally published in 1928, which for many years became the standard student reference book on the subject, reaching a sixth edition by 1958. Rose's Handbook was brought up-to-date along the same framework by Robin Hard, in The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (Routledge 2004), a project that began as a mere revision.<br />Rose was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada, to a family of Scottish descent. He attended McGill University, where he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, with which he went on to Balliol College, Oxford. He was said to be the first Oxford undergraduate to wear a soft hat on Sundays. He drew a chess game on Board 1 with the famous J R Capablanca in a cable match between American and English universities on 23 March 1907.[1]<br />For four years he was a fellow and tutor of Exeter College. In 1911 he married Eliza Plimsoll, elder daughter of Samuel Plimsoll, the British social reformer who advocated improved safety standards at sea.<br />From 1919 - 1927 Rose was Professor of Latin at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and from 1927 - 1953 he was Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews. Also during this time in 1934 he became a fellow of the British Academy.<br />Rose is best remembered as the author of A Handbook of Greek Mythology, 1928. This was his most successful work and is still widely used as a student reference book.<br />Upon his death it was written in the Glasgow Herald:<br />"The Scottish Universities have lost one of their most learned personalities by the death of Emeritus Professor H. J. Rose . . . as a lecturer he was much liked by both learned and popular audiences, while as teacher and colleague he was greatly beloved by generations of pupils and colleagues".<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Modern Methods in Classical Mythology (St. Andrews, 1930) <br />A Handbook of Greek Literature from Homer to Lucian (1934) <br />Hygini Fabulae (1934) <br />A Handbook of Latin Literature (1954) Primitive Culture in Greece (London, 1925) Primitive Culture in Italy (London, 1926; reprint 1971) <br />A Handbook of Greek Mythology (1929; sixth reprint 1958) <br />Ancient Greek Religion (London, 1948) Ancient Roman Religion (London, 1949) <br />Gods and Heroes of the Greeks (London, 1957; many reprints) <br />A Commentary on the Surviving Plays of Aeschylus, 1957–8 <br />Outline of Classical Literature for Students of English (London, 1959; reprint 1961)<br />
=== House Publications ===

== Related Material Details ==
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