ROSSE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).
ROSS, WILLIAM HUNTER, son of Edward Dalhousie Ross, Caversham, Oxfordshire, and Euphemia Louisa, dau. of David Fell (IGI); b. 21 Sep 1807; adm. 6 Jun 1815; KS 1821; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1825, adm. pens. 3 Jun 1825, scholar 1826; BA 1829; MA 1832; ordained; Curate, All Souls, Langham Place, London; Assistant Chaplain, EICS Bengal 1843; arrived in India Dec 1843; Minister of St. James’s, Calcutta 1844; m. 16 May 1843 Frances Louisa, dau. of Henry Peterson, Wakefield, Yorks.; d. at Calcutta 7 Aug 1844.
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.
ROOS, GUSTAF OSCAR, younger son of Gustaf Enrenzeich Roos, Queen’s Gate Terrace, London, and Annie, dau. of George Roffey, Twickenham, Middlesex; b. 21 Aug 1868; adm. 22 Sep 1882 (H); QS 1883; left Jul 1887, with Triplett; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Oct 1887; 3rd cl. Maths (Mods) 1889, 1st cl. Jurisprudence 1889; BA 1891; 2nd cl. Civil Law 1893; BCL 1893; MA 1895; adm. solicitor Dec 1895; practised at Johannesburg, South Africa; served in Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry during South African War, and severely wounded at battle of Spion Kop 1900; Capt., 14th (Service) Battn., Yorks and Lancs Regt., 16 Nov 1915; went out to Egypt 24 Dec 1915, and to France Mar 1916; killed in action near Serre in battle of the Somme 1 Jul 1916, unm.
ROOKE, GEORGE HENRY, son of William Rooke, Carlisle, Cumberland, attorney; b. 3 Aug 1702; in under school list 1715; Min. Can. 1716; KS 1717; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Sep 1720, scholar 6 Apr 1722, matr. 1720; 7th in “ordo” 1724/5; BA 1724/5; MA 1728; DD 1745; migrated to Christ’s Coll. 13 Jan 1726/7; Fellow, Christ’s Coll. 3 Jun 1727 – Mar 1744/5, Junior Dean 1731, Senior Dean 1739, Master from 12 Mar 1744/5; Proctor 1741-2; Vice-Chancellor 1745-6; ordained priest (Lincoln) 28 May 1727; Vicar of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1727; Vicar of Great Eversden, Cambs. , 18 Sep 1732; Vicar of Little Abington, Cambs. , 6 Apr 1736-7; Vicar of Foxton, Cambs. , 7 Mar 1737/8; Rector of Hadstock, Essex, from 1740; Rector of Great Horkesley, Essex, from 30 Apr 1747; Prebendary of Lincoln from 31 Aug 1749; Prebendary of Bristol from 20 Nov 1751; d. unm. 7 Feb 1754.
ROKEBY, ALEXANDER, second son of Alexander Rokeby, Sandal, Yorks., and Susan, dau. of Gervase Boswell, Edlington, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1650, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1650, scholar 1651, matr. Easter 1650; the Miscellanea Poetica of Nicholas Hookes (qv), published 1653, contains some verses “on the immature death of his hopeful friend Mr. Alexander Rokeby”; d. at Trinity Coll., Cambridge, c. 1652.
ROGERSON, CHARLES, son of Rev. Roger Rogerson, Vicar of Hanwell, Middlesex, and his first wife Anne ---; b. 9 Mar 1679/80; adm.; KS 1694; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1699, adfm. pens. 20 Jun 1699, aged 18, scholar 12 Apr 1700, matr. 1699/1700; BA 1702/3; MA 1718; ordained deacon 6 Jan 1705/6, priest 9 Sep 1708 (both London); Vicar of Marks Tey, Essex, from 1713; d. 1721.
ROGERS, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS 1699; left 1701.
ROGERS, SAMUEL, son of William Rogers, Gloucester, and Sarah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Michael. Gloucester 31 Mar 1734 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jan 1742/3 (Preston's); KS 1748; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1753, matr. 27 Jun 1753, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1753 – void 5 Dec 1800 (expiry year of grace as R. Batsford from 18 Dec 1799), Librarian 1779; ordained; Rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford 13 May 1763 – 27 Mar 1778; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1778; Prebendary of St. David’s from 29 Dec 1783; Rector of Batsford, Gloucestershire, from 1799; d. 22 Nov 1806.
ROGERS, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1600, adm. scholar 1601; 2nd in “ordo” 1604/5; BA 1604/5.