birth_date: 1924-11-15 00:00:00
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name: Kenneth   Rose
about: Kenneth Vivian Rose was a longtime biographer and newspaper columnist. Growing up in Yorkshire, he was educated at New College Oxford, with his time there interrupted by service in the Welsh Guards during the Second World War. After a period teaching history at Eton, he began writing for the Daily Telegraph in 1952 and started his longstanding "Albany at Large" column in 1961. He also wrote several works of nonfiction, most notably an award-winning biography of King George V that was published in 1983. Kenneth Vivian Rose was a longtime biographer and newspaper columnist. Growing up in Yorkshire, he was educated at New College Oxford, with his time there interrupted by service in the Welsh Guards during the Second World War. After a period teaching history at Eton, he began writing for the Daily Telegraph in 1952 and started his longstanding "Albany at Large" column in 1961. He also wrote several works of nonfiction, most notably an award-winning biography of King George V that was published in 1983. ...more
death_date: 2014-01-28 00:00:00