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George Rose (
17 June 1744 –
13 January 1818) was a
British politician.
Born in
Brechin,
Scotland, Rose was the son of the Reverend David Rose of Lethnet, by Margaret, daughter of Donald Rose of Wester Clune. He was educated at
Westminster School, afterwards entering the
Royal Navy, a service which he left in 1762 after he'd taken part in some fighting in the
West Indies. He then obtained a position in the
Civil Service, becoming joint
Keeper of the Records in 1772 and secretary to the
Board of Taxes in 1777. In 1782 he gave up the latter appointment to become one of the
secretaries to the treasury under
Lord Shelburne, though he didn't enter
Parliament.
He left office with his colleagues in April 1783, but in the following December he returned to his former position at the treasury in
Pitt's ministry, being henceforward one of this minister’s most steadfast supporters. He entered parliament as
Member for
Launceston early in 1784, and his fidelity and friendship were rewarded by Pitt, who gave him a lucrative post in the
court of exchequer; in 1788 he became
Clerk of the Parliaments. In 1801 Rose left office with Pitt, but returned with him to power in 1804, when he was made
vice-president of the committee on trade and joint
Paymaster-General.
He resigned these offices a few days after Pitt's death in 1806, but he served as vice-president of the committee on trade and
Treasurer of the Navy under the
Duke of Portland and
Spencer Perceval from 1807 to 1812. He was again Treasurer of the Navy under
Lord Liverpool, and he was still MP for
Christchurch, a seat which he'd held since 1790, when he died at
Cuffnells, in
Hampshire.
Rose was an able and conscientious public servant, although he and his two sons drew a large amount of money from
sinecures, a fact referred to by
William Cobbett in his "A New Year’s Gift to old George Rose." Rose wrote several books on economic subjects, and his
Diaries and Correspondence, edited by the Rev.
L. V. Harcourt, was published in 1860.
His elder son, Sir
George Henry Rose (1771–1855), was in parliament from 1794 to 1813, and again from 1818 to 1844, and in the meantime he was British minister at Munich, at Berlin, and at Washington; in 1818 he succeeded his father as clerk of the parliaments. He was the father of
Baron Strathnairn. The second son was the poet
William Stewart Rose.
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