Donald Frank Rose
| Donald Frank Rose | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 29, 1890 Somerset, England |
| Died | February 7, 1964 (aged 73) Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Residence | Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Columnist |
| Spouse(s) | Marjorie Wells |
| Parent(s) | Frank Hodson Rose Mary Anne Harriette Searle |
Donald Frank Rose (June 29, 1890 – February 7, 1964) was an American newspaper columnist, lecturer, and author.
Rose was born on June 29, 1890 to Frank Hodson Rose and Mary Anne Harriette Searle Rose, in Street, Somerset, England. He later observed that it was a good place to be born an Englishman, as his birthplace on Wilfred Terrace was but three miles from Glastonbury Tor. At age 14, he went to work as a clerk at a brewery in Surrey, until the time of his emigration to the United States in 1908. While working at the brewery, however, he got a foretaste of what would eventually become his long-term profession. At the age of seventeen, he entered an essay contest run by the English magazine The Reader. And for his speculations on what the world would be like in the year 2000, he won a prize of two dollars and fifty cents.
The plan in going to America was that he should study to become a minister in the New Church, as his great-grandfather, the Rev. James Shirley Hodson, had been before him. He crossed the Atlantic in the Autumn of 1908 on the USS Saint Paul, but he was seasick and singularly unimpressed with the seaworthiness of the vessel. He professed himself unsurprised that the ship capsized while docking in New York ten years later.
The path to the ministry entailed finishing his secondary education the Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools, receiving an undergraduate degree at the affiliated college, and then continuing into the Theological School. After two years of study for the ministry, he gave up that ambition, as he later liked to say, "for the good of the church." At that point he turned instead to teaching and writing to support his growing family; for on June 13, 1914, he had married Marjorie Wells and over the next 17 years they had twelve children. One of his 86 grandchildren is New York Times culture critic Neil Genzlinger.
Rose began his career teaching high school English while he was a still himself a student in theological school. In 1915 he added Latin to his teaching responsibilities. By 1916, he was giving instruction in Hebrew as well. During his years of teaching, he pursued additional education at Columbia and Oxford University. He continued teaching until 1924, at which point he launched out on his own as a freelance writer.
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