Charles Hose


Charles Hose FRGS. FLS was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.

Life and career

He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted in Essex. Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1882, he almost immediately migrated to Jesus College, and later left Cambridge without taking a degree. He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884. His large collection of ethnographic objects from Borneo was purchased by the British Museum in 1905.

Animal species named after Hose

Several species named to commemorate his work as zoologist:
Amphibians
Birds
Mammals
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