English churchman, Principal of King's College London

A new general biographical dictionary / projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose.

Encyclopaedia metropolitana; or, universal dictionary of knowledge, comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings / Edited by Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, and Henry John Rose.

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A new general biographical dictionary / projected and partly arranged by the late Rev. Hugh James Rose.

Encyclopaedia metropolitana; or, universal dictionary of knowledge, comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings / Edited by Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, and Henry John Rose.