| Charles Hose DSc | |||||||||
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| Born | 1863 | ||||||||
| Died | 1929 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Sarawak and c/o Borneo co., 28 Fenchurch Street, EC The Residency, Sibu, Sarawak, Borneo and c/o Borneo co., 28 Fenchurch Street, EC [1906] | ||||||||
| Occupation | colonial officer | ||||||||
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1900.10.23 accepts post of Local Correspondent
1903.03.15 The Treasurer read a letter from Dr Hose, enclosing his arrears of subscription and asking to be made a life member. It was resolved that the Treasurer should write to Dr Hose stating that if Dr Hose would pay the balance of the Life Composition the Institute would meet him in that way.
Resident of Baram, Sarawak
Notes From Elsewhere
Charles Hose was born in Willan, Hertfordshire on October 12th 1863. He was the son of Thomas Charles Hose and Fanny (née Goodfellow). He was educated at Felsted and Jesus College, Cambridge. He married Emily Ravn in 1905 and had one son and one daughter.
Hose entered the service of the Raja of Sarawak as a Sarawak cadet in March 1884. In 1888 he was Officer-in-Charge of the Baram District. In January 1891 he was Resident, 2nd class. By May 1904 he was Resident, 3rd Division, a member of Supreme Council and Judge of the Supreme Court of Sarawak. He retired in 1907 but he revisited Sarawak in 1909 and 1920. From 1916 to 1919 he was Superintendent of H.M. Explosives Factory, Kings Lunn. In 1919 he was a member of the Sarawak State Advisory Council at Westminster. In 1924 at the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley he was the Director of Agricultural and Industrial Exhibits, Sarawak Pavilion.
Hose was a keen amateur photographer. With Robert Walter Campbell, Hose made an album of prints depicting scenery, people and the production of Sarawak. Many of these prints were also used in his books. Hose also made a large collection of fauna and flora from Sarawak. Hose died on November 14th 1929.
Born Willian, Hertfordshire; died Burley Oaks, Surrey. Spent most of his career in Sarawak and then retired to Norfolk and spent his time writing and lecturing on Sarawak. Donated collections to British Museum and Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge. Honorary degree from Cambridge
before marrying his European wife Emilee (Poppy) Ravn he had married a Bornean woman whom we think her name was Milan they had three children together Josephine, Valentine and Michael
There is a Regatta held in Fort Hose in Marudi every two years to celebrate Charles's success in bringing headhunting to an end in the Baram District, Charles is also noted for discovering the cause of the disease beriberi and to the aiding of discovering an oil-well in Miri. He has the Hose Mountain Range named after him as well as over 60 fauna and flora species [Colin Hose]
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Natural Man
The Pagan tribes of Borneo