ROSE, SIR GEORGE, eldest son of James Rose, Tooley Street, Southwark, Surrey, lighterman, and Elizabeth Ferns, Tarlogie, Ross-shire; b. 1 May 1782; adm. Sep 1793; KS 1797; played cricket v. Eton at Lord’s 31 Jul 1800; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1801, adm. pens. 14 May 1801, scholar 30 Apr 1802, but left university through want of means and did not graduate; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 5 May 1809, Bencher 1827, Treasurer 1835; Northern Circuit; specialised in bankruptcy cases; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 Feb 1824; KC Trinity 1827; a Judge of Court of Review 5 Dec 1831 – Dec 1840; knighted 7 Dec 1831; Master in Chancery 7 Dec 1840 – 1 Feb 1858; chairman, Law Fire Insurance Co., 1845-69, director to death; FRS 5 Jun 1834; hon. MA Cambridge 1835; a well-known wit and epigrammatist; author, Reports of Cases in Bankruptcy decided by Lord Eldon, 1812-6, An Enquiry into the Nature of Trading as a Scrivener, 1813; m. 24 Apr 1821 Mary Anne, dau. of Capt. Robert Pouncy, EI Maritime Service; d. 3 Dec 1873. DNB.