Alfred Rose (bishop)

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Alfred Rose
Assistant Bishop of Canterbury (1956–1971)
Orders
Ordination1909
Consecration1935
by Cosmo Gordon Lang
Personal details
Born
Alfred Carey Wollaston Rose

1884 (1884)
Died(1971-04-09)9 April 1971 (aged 86)
Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsA. Rose (a vicar)
SpouseLois née Garton
Childrenfour sons, inc. Clive
Alma materWorcester College, Oxford

Alfred Carey Wollaston Rose (1884 – 9 April 1971)[1][2] was the sixth Bishop of Dover, England, in the modern era,[3][2] from 1935[4] to 1956.[5]

Life

The son of Arthur Wollaston Rose, Vicar of Wilstead, Bedfordshire,[2][6] he was educated at Marlborough, and Worcester College, Oxford. He began his ministry with a curacy at St Mary, Somers Town, London (1909–1914); after which he served a period as a Royal Navy chaplain during World War I (1914–1919).[2]

Rose was appointed chaplain on the day war was declared. He served on HMS London, a support ship for the Gallipoli campaign, on the troopship HMS Tyne and finally on the battleship HMS Marlborough. Just before his demobilisation in February 1919, Rose was recognised as "Excellent type of chaplain. Cheery with great influence."[7]

When peace returned, he became Sub-Warden of the

Rural Dean of the city, and examining chaplain to Winfrid Burrows and George Bell, Bishops of Chichester (1928–1935) and an Honorary Chaplain to the King (George VI; 1933–1935) before his ordination to the episcopate.[8]

His appointment to become

Order of St John of Jerusalem. He died, aged 86, in Canterbury on Good Friday, 9 April 1971.[11]

Geoffrey Fisher, former Archbishop of Canterbury, paid tribute to him as a man who won the trust of people ‘...wherever he went by his personal graces, his intense interest in them and all that concerned them, his ready humour and engaging laughter, his well stocked mind, his unfailing spirit of personal integrity, of pastoral devotion and faith.’ [14]

Family

Rose married Lois née Garton in 1920 and they had four sons,

Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
.

References

  1. ^ Deaths The Times Monday, 12 April 1971; p. 12; Issue 58144; col A.
  2. ^
    Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 January 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ New Bishop of Dover — Vicar of Brighton Appointed The Times Monday, 12 November 1934; p. 14; Issue 46909; col F.
  5. ^ Bishop of Dover to Resign The Times Monday, 22 October 1956; p. 8; Issue 53668; col F.
  6. ^ "Rose, Arthur Wollaston (RS878AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  7. ^ TNA ADM6/444/416 has information re RN service
  8. ^ Documents held by The National Archives
  9. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 7 January 2017 – via UK Press Online archives.
  10. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 7 January 2017 – via UK Press Online archives.
  11. ^
    ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 7 January 2017 – via UK Press Online archives.
  12. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 7 January 2017 – via UK Press Online archives.
  13. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 7 January 2017 – via UK Press Online archives.
  14. ^ The Times obituary, 20.4.1971. Letter from Lord Fisher of Lambeth.
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