Charles Archibald Walker Rose CIE FRGS (1879–1961) was a British diplomat, explorer and businessman in China during the early twentieth century.
His dandiacal appearance and his taste for drollery were unsure guides to his true character, in which the dominant strain was a sort of earnest but unobtrusive chivalry'.
[5] and provided a lively eye-witness account of life in the Legations during the sieges, for example from Monday 25 June 1900: 'These people are the most shockingly bad shots fortunately for us.
[8] During this period he also developed an enthusiasm for ballroom-dancing to the extent that he was referred to by his friend George Ernest Morrison, The Times China Correspondent, as 'Professor of dancing and deportment in the department of commerce'.
[15] Rose retired from the Foreign Office with the rank of First Secretary in 1921, and embarked on a career in business in the Far East; becoming a Director of British American Tobacco and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.