William Rothenstein, 

 British artist 



ROTHENSTEIN 



are cloth, flannel, and dye factories, 

 and a trade in grain and wine. 

 Rothenburg was captured by Tilly 

 in the Thirty Years' War, an 

 event commemorated annually by 

 a procession and play. Pop. 9,000. 

 Rothenstein, WILLIAM (b. 

 1872). British artist. Born at 

 Bradford, Yorks., he studied at the 

 S 1 a d e School 

 under Legros, 

 and in Paris. 

 He began to 

 exhibit at the 

 New English 

 Art Oub in 

 1893. His Jews 

 Mourning in a 

 Synagogue is 

 in the Tate 

 Gallery, and 

 he is well re- Runeii 



presented in other public galleries. 

 He painted war pictures in France. 

 In 1917 he was appointed professor 

 of civic art at Sheffield University, 

 and in 1920 principal of the Royal 

 College of Art, S. Kensington. 



Rother field. Parish and village, 

 Sussex. England. It is E. of Ash- 

 down Forest, 8 m. S.W. of Tun- 

 bridge Wells, on the L.B. & S.C. 

 Rly. The river Rother rises near 

 here and flows for 30 m. to the Eng- 

 lish Channel. The church was once 

 part of a monastery. Pop. 2,900. 



Rother ham. County and mim. 

 borough and market town of York- 

 shire (W.R.), England. It stands 

 at the junction of the Rother and 

 Don, 6 m. from Sheffield, and is 

 served by the Mid., G.C., and N.E. 

 Rlys. The chief buildings are the 

 fine cruciform church of All Saints, 

 a Perpendicular edifice of the 15th 

 century, town 

 hall, grammar 

 school, etc. The 

 main industries 

 are ironworks, 

 brassworks, and 

 the like ; there 



are also saw-mills, works for mak- 

 ing glass and chemicals, and it is 

 a railway centre. On the old bridge 

 across the Don are the remains of 



Rotherham arms 



a chapel. Rotherham existed in 

 Anglo-Saxon times, but did not be- 

 come a corporate town until 1871. 

 Since 1918 it has sent one member 

 to Parliament. Market days, Mon. 

 and Sat. Pop. (1921), 68,045. 



Rotherhithe. London district. 

 A parish and E. ward of the met. 

 borough of Bermondsey, served by 

 the S.E. & C., L.B. & S.C., and 

 Met. Rlys., it includes the Surrey 

 Commercial docks (q.v. ) and 

 Southwark Park, 63 acres, opened 

 to the public in 1869. The parish 

 church of S. Mary, on the W. side 

 of the entrance to the Thames 

 Tunnel (q.v.), was rebuilt hi 1715. 

 Rotherhithe Tunnel, for foot pas- 

 sengers and vehicular traffic, con- 

 necting Union Road, Rotherhithe, 

 with Commercial Road, Stepney, 

 is 1 m. 440 yds. long, 510 yds. 

 being under the Thames, and was 

 opened June 12, 1908. 



Once part of the royal manor ot 

 Bermondsey, Rotherhithe was 

 known in the 17th century as 

 Redriff. Admiral Sir John Leake 

 was a native ; and Swift made it 

 the birthplace of Lemuel Gulliver. 

 Here the Fighting Temeraire was 

 broken up in 1838. Jacob's Island 

 was the scene of Bill Sikes's death 

 in Dickens's Oliver Twist. See 

 Bermondsey ; London. 



Rothermere OF HEMSTED, 

 HAROLD SIDNEY HARMSWORTH, 

 IST VISCOUNT (b. 1868). British 

 newspaper 

 owner, min- 

 ister, and pub- 

 licist. He was 

 born at Hamp- 

 stead, London, 

 April 26, 1868. 

 The younger 

 brother of Vis- 

 count North- 

 cliff e (q.v.), he 

 was the second 

 son of Alfred 

 Harmsworth, 

 barrister-at-law of the 



Rotherham, Yorkshire. 



Middle 



Temple. He entered his brother's 

 publishing business as a partner at 

 the age of 21, and was thenceforth 

 for many years 

 intimately as- 

 ' sociated in his 

 great successes, 

 founding with 

 him the Amal- 

 gamated Press, 

 reorganizing 

 the London 

 Evening News, 

 and establish- 

 ing The Daily 

 Mail, The Daily 

 Mirror, and the 

 Anglo -New- 

 foundland De- 

 velopment 

 Old bridge, with remain* of chapel Company. 



ROTHES 



His executive talents contributed 

 greatly to the prosperity of these. 

 In 1910 he founded and endowed 

 with 20,000 a professorship of 

 English Literature at Cambridge 

 University in memory of King 

 Edward VII. That same year he 

 was created a baronet and severed 

 his connexion with The Daily 

 Mail, though he remained for many 

 years principal proprietor of The 

 Glasgow Daily Record and The 

 Leeds Mercury. He was raised to 

 the peerage as Baron Rothermere 

 in 1914, and in that year acquired 

 from his brother sole control of 

 The Daily Mirror. In 1915 he 

 founded The Sunday Pictorial (q.v. ), 

 in 1922 acquired The Daily Mail, 

 and in 1923 most of the publications 

 of Sir E. Hulton. 



He held office under the govern- 

 ment in the Great War, in 1916 

 becoming director-general of the 

 Royal Army Clothing Department, 

 and in 1917 air minister, at Mr. 

 Lloyd George's invitation, for the 

 purpose of amalgamating the Royal 

 Flying Corps and the Royal Naval 

 Air Service. After this had been 

 accomplished he resigned in 1918 

 as the result of ill-health, receiving 

 promotion to the rank of viscount 

 in 1919. After the war he con- 

 ducted an energetic campaign for 

 economy in his newspapers, writ- 

 ing many articles himself. 



He married Mary Lilian, daugh- 

 ter of George Wade Share, on 

 July 4, 1893, and had three sons. 

 The eldest, Harold Alfred Vy vyan 

 Harmsworth (b. Aug. 2, 1894), 

 after being twice wounded in 1915, 

 received mortal wounds in 1917*in 

 Bourlon Wood, and died on Feb. 

 12, 1918, after receiving the M.C. 



The second son, Vere Sidney 

 Tudor Harmsworth (b. Sept. 25, 

 1895), was wounded at Gallipoli 

 and fell in the battle of the Ancre 

 in 1916. In memory of their 

 gallantry he founded and endowed 

 professorships of American History 

 and Naval History at Oxford 

 and Cambridge respectively. The 

 third and only surviving son, 

 Esmond Cecil Harmsworth (b. May 

 26, 1898), served hi the war and 

 in 1919 was elected M.P. for 

 Thanet, when he was the youngest 

 member of the House, and founder 

 of the Anti- Waste party. 



Roihes. Police burgh of Moray- 

 shire, Scotland. It is near the 

 river Spey, 10 m. from Elgin, with 

 a station on the 

 G.N. of S. Rly. 

 Distilling is the 

 main industry. 

 There are re- 

 mains of a castle 

 once a seat of 

 the Leslie family. 

 Rothes arms Pop. 2,000. 



