Sir Charles Rose, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Rose, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Day Rose, 1st Baronet (23 August 1847 - 20 April 1913) was a British-Canadian businessman, race horse breeder, yachtsman and Liberal politician.

Born in Montreal, he was the second son of Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet. His father moved from Scotland to Canada, where he was successively Solicitor General, Minister of Public Works and Minister of Finance.[1]

Rose was educated at Montreal High School and Rugby School. He was commissioned in the Montreal Garrison Artillery, and was involved in repelling the Fenian raid of 1870.[1] He subsequently entered business as a partner in an American bank based in the City of London, and part of the syndicate promoting the Canadian Pacific Railway.[1]

In 1871 he married Eliza McClean, and they had four sons and one daughter.[1] His two eldest sons both died in the Second Boer War.[1]

In the late 1880s and early 1890s he was a leading horse race breeder, based at Newmarket, Suffolk. His most successful horse was Ravensbury, but it was overshadowed by Isinglass, owned by Harry McCalmont, Conservative MP for Newmarket. He was also the owner and breeder of the influential stallion Cyllene. He was elected a member of the Jockey Club in 1891.[1] In 1893 Rose took up yachting, competing in a number of competitive events and was a member of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club.[1]

Rose was created a baronet of "Hardwick House in the Parish of Whitchurch in the County of Oxford" on 19 July 1909.[2] He had completed the purchase of Hardwick House shortly beforehand.[1] Rose is said to have been one of the models for "Toad" of Toad Hall in the Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Grahame's illustrator E. H. Shepherd used parts of Hardwick House in his drawings.[3]

At the 1900 general election he stood as Liberal candidate for the Newmarket constituency, but failed to unseat the sitting Conservative MP, and fellow horse breeder, Colonel Harry McCalmont.[1] In December 1902 McCalmont died suddenly, and Rose won the ensuing by-election held in January 1903.[1] He held the seat at the 1906 election, but was defeated in January 1910. He regained the seat when a further election was held in December of the same year.[1]

Another of Sir Charles's interests was aviation, and he was president of the Royal Aero Club. In April 1913 he was returning from a flight at Hendon Aerodrome by motor car when he died from a heart attack.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Obituary: Sir Charles Rose M.P.". The Times: p. 8. 21 April 1913. 
  2. ^ London Gazette: no. 28271. p. 5457. 16 July 1909.
  3. ^ Paul Goldsack River Thames:In the Footsteps of the Famous Bradt/English Heritage ISBN 1 841620440

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Harry McCalmont		 Member of Parliament for Newmarket
1903 – January 1910		 Succeeded by
George Henry Verrall
Preceded by
George Henry Verrall		 Member of Parliament for Newmarket
December 1910 – 1913		 Succeeded by
John Denison-Pender
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Hardwick House)
1909 – 1913		 Succeeded by
Frank Stanley Rose, 2nd Baronet

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