Sir George Henry Rose

(1770-1855)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rose, G. H. (George Henry), 1771-1855 NRA: Rose Sir George Henry (1771-1855) Knight diplomat DNB: Rose, George Henry (1770–1855), diplomatist LBT ID: GeRose1855 VIAF ID: 40903035 LOC ID: n87860958	B/BAP: 1770-05 DIED: 1855-06-17
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thepeerage.com/p43637; LOC Name Authority File
English diplomat and politician, the elder brother of William Stewart Rose; he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and was MP for Southampton (1818-32, 1837-44).
REFERENCES TO Sir George Henry Rose: Sir Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., [February? 1822] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 11 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVI 1818 Found 1: ¶ 24 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) REV. C. TOWNSEND Found 1: ¶ 15