ROSS, SIR PATRICK, eldest son of Major-Gen. Patrick Ross, Chief Engineer EICS Madras, later MP, and Mary Clara, dau. of John Maule, Clerk of the Cheque, Greenwich Hospital; b. 26 Jan 1778; at school under Vincent (ex rel. his son Maj. Patrick William Sydenham Ross); left 1794; Capt., 101st Foot 14 May 1794; 25th Light Dragoons 15 Mar 1798; Maj., 25 Sep 1803; Lieut. -Col., 23rd Light Dragoons 9 Apr 1807; 48th Foot 28 Jun 1810; Brevet Col., 4 Jun 1814; Lieut. -Col., 75th Foot 12 Oct 1815; Major-Gen., 19 Jul 1821; retd. Jan 1826; served in India and in the Peninsular War; Governor of Antigua 23 May 1825-32, St. Helena from 27 Jun 1846; CMG 27 Apr 1818; KCMG 9 Nov 1819; GCMG 10 May 1837; KCH 1834; m. 1st, 14 Apr 1805 Amelia, younger dau. of Col. William Sydenham, EICS Madras; m. 2nd, 27 Dec 1849 Eliza, eldest dau. of Capt. James Bennett, EICS St. Helena; d. at St. Helena 28 Aug 1850.
ROSS, HENRY JOHN; b.; adm. 1 Jul 1800 (Clapham); left Bartholomewtide 1800. [Perhaps Henry John Ross, son of William Sutherland Ross, St. Clement Danes, London, and Hannah Margaretta Owen; b. 30 Aug 1787; d. 1830 (IGI)] [note will Henry Ross, St. James, Clerkenwell, proved PCC 3 Feb 1830]
Ross, Gerard Chalmers, son of Frank Chalmers Ross, personnel man. Marks & Spencer, of Jordans, Bucks, and Amy, d. of Walter Fowkes of Manchester; b. 11 Dec. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (A); left July 1951; group man. Kingsway Stores (Nigeria) Ltd., Ibadan, later Bishop’s Food Stores Ltd.; asst. Bursar Harrow Sch. 1984-98; m. 16 Dec. 1961 Violet, d. of Arthur Lee of Bromley; d. 18 Feb. 2009.
Ross, Gerald, son of Ronald Ross of South Kensington; b. 20 Dec. 1907; adm. Jan. 1922 (G); left Apr. 1925; d. 1999.
Ross, Gerald Whitehill, son of Col. George Whitehill Ross CIE DSO, of Clifton, Bristol, and Clare Josephine, d. of Lieut.-Col. George Welman IA, of Folkestone; b. 19 Sept. 1904; adm. Sept. 1918 (H); left Aug. 1922; Lieut. RM Sept. 1925, Capt. Sept. 1934, Lieut.-Col. June 1947, retd Feb. 1952; organising sec. RNLI (Ireland) 1952-67; m. 21 Oct. 1938 Margaret Dorothy, d. of Guy Ross-Bell of Galle, Ceylon; d. 26 Aug. 1988.
Ross, George Walter, younger son of George Edward Aubert Ross, K.C., of Earls Court, by Mary Lomax, second daughter of William Sampson Hodgkinson, of Wookey Hole, Somerset; b. March 26, 1883; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (H); left April 1901; a paper-maker in the service of the Laurentide Paper Co. of Canada from 1906; m. Dec. 17, 1912, Louise Anne, third daughter of Alexander McCulloch, of Alexandria, Ontario, Canada; d. at Montreal Jan. 7, 1915.
ROSS, DAVID, son of Alexander Ross, Gray’s Inn, London, previously Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh; b. 1 May 1728; adm. Jun 1739 (Hawkins'); Min. Can. 1743; left 1743; went on the stage; actor at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 1749-51, Drury Lane 1754-6, Covent Garden 1757-67; patentee and manager of the theatre at Edinburgh, which he opened 9 Dec 1767 with the play The Earl of Essex, the first play legally performed in Scotland; reappeared at Covent Garden 10 Oct 1770; made his last appearance in the season 1777-8; his best parts as an actor were Castalio, Essex, Young Knowell, and George Barnwell; a close friend of James Boswell, who was chief mourner at his funeral (Letters of Boswell to Temple, 273); said to have married the celebrated Fanny Murray (John Taylor, Records of My Life, 1832, i, 362-6); d. 15 Sep 1790. DNB.
Rosing, Valerian, son of Vladimir Rosing, singer, and Maria Falle; b. 21 Feb. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (R); left Dec. 1924; an artist; m. 12 Apr. 1932 Meriel, d. of Robert Moss; d. 14 June 1969.
ROSINDALE, ---; b.; at school in 1567-8; a pensioner (tutor, Prebendary Watts) (Chapter Muniments 54016-8).