Algernon Winter Rose
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Algernon Winter Rose | |
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| Born | 23 December 1885 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Died | 29 October 1918 (aged 32) Hastings, Sussex, England |
| Resting place | Quendon, Essex |
| Known for | architecture |
Captain Algernon Winter Rose MC (1885-1918) was an architect of English country houses and gardens during the Edwardian period. Described as a man '...of original mind and unstinted devotion to his art', his flourishing career was curtailed by the First World War and his untimely death at the age of 32 during the flu epidemic of 1918.[1]
Algernon Winter Rose was the son of Thomas Edward (A boot manufacturer) and Kate Elizabeth Rose and was born in Cambridge. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and was articled to a local firm of architects, Messrs Usher and Anthony of Bedford. He received further training with Beddoe Rees and W.D. Caroe and at H.M. Office of Works. His early reputation was gained through the award of the Pugin Medal and a travelling studentship of the Architectural Association, and he established his own practice at Westminster in 1906.[2]
Designs
Rose's work appeared regularly in magazines such as The Builder and Country Life as well as in the architectural section of the exhibitions of the Royal Academy. His houses included Woolmer Wood on Marlow Common, Buckinghamshire,[3] and Marrowells in Weybridge, Surrey, designed for Sir Vernon Kell.[4] Upton House on Grange Road, Cambridge, designed by Rose in the style of the Arts and Crafts Movement has been described as one of the most attractive houses in the City.[5]
Rose was also sought after for his garden designs. He laid out the gardens at Eastlands, Walberswick, Suffolk for the portrait artist Arthur Dacres Rendall.[6] He also designed the gardens at Morton House and Goodrich House, both in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.[7]
