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ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)

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ROSE, See also:GEORGE (1744-1818) , See also:British politician, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:June 1744, and was educated at See also:Westminster school, afterwards entering the See also:navy, a service which he See also:left in 1762 after he had taken See also:part in some fighting in the See also:West Indies. He then obtained a position in the See also:Civil Service, becoming See also:joint keeper of the records in 1772 and secretary to the See also:board of taxes in 1777. In 1782 he gave up the latter See also:appointment to become one of the secretaries to the See also:treasury under See also:Lord Shelburne, though he did not enter See also:parliament. He left See also:office with his colleagues in See also:April 1783, but in the following See also:December he returned to his former position at the treasury in See also:Pitt's See also:ministry, being henceforward one of this See also:minister's most steadfast supporters. He entered parliament as member for See also:Launceston See also:early in 1784, and his fidelity and friendship were rewarded by Pitt, who gave him a lucrative See also:post in the See also:court of See also:exchequer; in 1788 he became clerk of the parliaments. In 18ot Rose left office with Pitt, but returned with him to See also:power in 1804, when he was made See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:committee on See also:trade and joint paymaster-See also:general. He resigned these offices a few days after Pitt's See also:death in 1806, but he served as vice-president of the committee on trade and treasurer of the navy under the See also:duke of See also:Portland and See also:Spencer See also:Perceval from 1807 to 1812. He was again treasurer of the navy under Lord See also:Liverpool, and he was still member of parliament for See also:Christchurch, a seat which he had held since 1790, when he died at Cuffnells, in See also:Hampshire, on the 13th of See also:January 1818. Rose was an able and conscientious public servant, although he and his two sons See also:drew a large amount of See also:money from sinecures, a fact referred to by See also:William See also:Cobbett in his " A New See also:Year's See also:Gift to old George Rose." He wrote several books on economic subjects, and his Diaries and See also:Correspondence, edited by the Rev. L. V. See also:Harcourt, was published in 1860.

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elder son, See also:Sir George See also: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 See also:Munich and at See also:Berlin; in 1818 he succeeded his See also:father as clerk of the parliaments. He was the father of See also:Baron See also:Strathnairn (q.v.). The second son was the poet William See also:Stewart Rose (q.v.).

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