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DR. CHARLES HOSE, whose death on Nov. 14 we much regret to record, was born on Oct. 12, 1863. From his father he inherited that love of wild Nature which characterised him throughout his life. As a boy, he was a keen naturalist and continued his habit of collecting and observing while at Felsted School. In 1882 he was admitted to Jesus College, Cambridge, but did not take a degree, as in his second year his uncle, the Bishop of Singapore, Labuan, and Sarawak, obtained for him a cadetship under Rajah Sir Charles Brooke, and on April 15, 1884, he landed at Kuching and was at once sent to the Baam district, where he remained for about eighteen years. In 1904 he was appointed Resident of the Rejang district and retired on Aug. 20, 1907, when he returned to England. In 1916, Dr. Hose was appointed superintendent of the munitions factory at King's Lynn, and in 1918 was chairman of the Cotton-waste Mills Investigation Committee.
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HADDON, A. Dr. Charles Hose. Nature 124, 845 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124845a0
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