George Hose facts for kids
George Frederick Hose (3 September 1838 – 26 March 1922) was an Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak from 1881 to 1909.
Hose was born on 3 September 1838 in Brunswick Place, Cambridge, the son of Frederick Hose, a clerk, and his wife, Mary Ann Knight. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained an MA and ordained in 1861. He began his career with curacies at Roxton and Marylebone. He was Chaplain of Malacca then Archdeacon of Singapore before his elevation to the episcopate.
In 1877, he promoted the founding of the Straits Asiatic Society, later the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and subsequently served as the society's president from 1878 to 1908.
He retired in 1909 and died on 26 March 1922.
He was married to Emily Harriet Kerbey, and had children.
- His son Edward Shaw Hose (1871–1946) was a civil servant in Malaya and was also President of the Asiatic Society.
- His daughter Elfrida Mary Hose (1879–1960) was married by her father at the Cathedral Singapore to Rev. Charles Hampden Basil Woodd (1869–1941), Principal and later Chaplain of Momoyama Middle school for boys at Osaka, Japan, from 1902–15, later lived in Essex; they left five children.
