CHAIR OF NAVAL HISTORY
Tho Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Dr. Shipley, announces that the new Vore Harmsworth Professorship of Naval History has been offered by Lord Rothorrnere to Dr. John Holland Rose, Fellow of Christ's and Reader in Modern History since 1011. Dr. Holland Rose has accepted tho professorehip. Dr. Holland Rose was born at Bedford in 1855. His work has been chiefly on the Napoleonic Period, and his "Life, of Napoleon" is very widely known for 'its scholarship and vivid presentation. Lord Rothermere, who had previously endowed the King Edward VII. Professorship of English Literature at Cam. bridge, has endowed the new chair in memory of his second son, Lieutenant the Hon. Verc Sidney Tudor Harmsworth, R.N.V.R., who wns killed in the battle of the Ancro while eerviug with the Royal Naval Division.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 262, 1 August 1919, Page 10
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134CHAIR OF NAVAL HISTORY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 262, 1 August 1919, Page 10
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