His The Royal Australian Navy, 1914-1918, 1985: CIP t.p. (Arthur W. Jose) data sheet (b. 1863; d. 1934)
LC data base, 11-1-84 (hdg.: Jose, Arthur Wilberforce, 1863-1934; no usage)
Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 22 February 2022: (Arthur Wilberforce Jose (1863-1934), journalist and historian, was born on 4 September 1863 at Clifton, Bristol, England. He came to Australia in 1882 for his health. In 1885-1887 he was a teacher in Bathurst, N.S.W. In 1888 he became a university extension lecturer and as 'Ishmael Dare' wrote Sun and Cloud on River and Sea (1888), a collection of verses. He was a reader for his publishers Angus & Robertson for many years and, although he never practised, was admitted to the Bar on 28 August 1891. Jose's first major work, The Growth of the Empire, was published in Sydney in 1897, enlarged editions following. He travelled to South Africa, London and India, returning to Sydney in 1904 as correspondent for The Times. he was an early member of the Australian Historical Society (from 1918 "Royal"); in World War I he worked in military and naval intelligence, and afterwards wrote the naval volume of Charles Bean's official Australian war history. He was editor of the Australian Encyclopedia from 1920, but went to England in 1926, returning in 1932, and settled in Brisbane, where he died on 22 January 1934.) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jose-arthur-wilberforce-6885