Algernon Winter Rose [also known as A. Winter Rose] was born in Cambridge, England in March 1886 and was articled to Usher & Anthony in Bedford. He also attended the Architectural Association Schools in London. He worked as an assistant to William Beddoe Rees (1877-1931 in H. M. Office of Works and to William Douglas Caröe (1857-1938) in London. In 1906 he established his own independent practice in Westminster, London. He designed a number of country houses notably Marrowells in Weybridge, Surrey for Sir Vernon Kell, and Woolmer Wood on Marlow Common, Buckinghamshire. Rose also designed gardens including for Morton House and Goodrich House in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and at Eastlands in Walberswick, Suffolk for the painter Arthur Dacres Rendall (1861-1936).
During World War One Rose served with distinction in the Essex Yeomanry and was awarded a Military Cross for action at the Battle of Arras in 1917. Having survived the war he fell a victim of the influenza pandemic following his return to England and died in Hastings, Sussex on 29 October 1918.
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 115, 22 November 1918 p. 340