George Frederick Hose (3 September 1838 – 26 March 1922) was an Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak from 1881 to 1909.[1]
Hose was born on 3 September 1838[2] 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[3] and ordained in 1861.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6]
He retired in 1909 and died on 26 March 1922.[7]
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),[8] Principal and later Chaplain of Momoyama Middle school for boys at Osaka, Japan, from 1902–15, later lived in Essex; they left five children.
