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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.