Background
Algernon Winter Rose was the son of Thomas and Katherine Rose and was born in Abingdon Villas, Kensington.
Algernon Winter Rose was the son of Thomas and Katherine Rose and was born in Abingdon Villas, Kensington.
He was educated at Bedford Modern School and was articled to a local firm of architects, Messrs Usher and Anthony of Bedford.
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 33 during the flu epidemic of 1918. He received further training with Beddoe Rees and West.D. Caroe and at Her Majesty 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.
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, and Marrowells in Weybridge, Surrey, designed for Sir Vernon Kell. 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.
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.
He also designed the gardens at Morton House and Goodrich House, both in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
Rose was commissioned in the Essex Yeomanry on the 21st October, 1914. He became Adjutant to his Regiment and in 1918 he transferred to Staff College at which point he was attached to the Royal Air Force. After serving for almost the entirety of the War relatively unscathed he succumbed to influenza and died at Hastings on the 29th October, 1918.