Alfred Leslie Rowse (1903-1997), English historian.
He was born at St Austell, Cornwall December 4th, 1903, into a very poor family and his his parents were virtually illiterate. Despite this, Rowse won a scholarship to Christ Church College, Oxford in 1921, later becoming a Fellow of All Souls'.
He remained proud of his working-class origins. His love for his native Cornwall inspired him to write poetry as well as the works on history and English literature for which he became famous. He developed a widespread reputation for irascibility.
Rowse died on October 3rd, 1997.
Tudor Cornwall (1941)
The Use of History (1946)
The England of Elizabeth (1950)
Christopher Marlowe: a Biography (1964)
A Cornishman at Oxford (1965 - autobiography)
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