Charles Hose

FLS (12 October 1863 – 14 November 1929) was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.

[1] He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted[2] in Essex.

[3] He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884.

His large collection of ethnographic objects from Borneo was purchased by the British Museum in 1905.

[4] Several species named to commemorate his work[5] as zoologist: Amphibians Birds Fish Mammals Insects Place Books authored by Charles Hose include: