Thomas Rose (1679-1748) [2] of Wootton House in the parish of Wootton Fitzpaine in Dorset was Sheriff of Dorset in 1715. [3]
Thomas Rose (1679-1748) [2] of Wootton House in the parish of Wootton Fitzpaine in Dorset was Sheriff of Dorset in 1715. [3]
The earliest recorded member of the Rose family is John Rose of St Burlado (Saint Brélade) on the Island of Jersey, who served as Mayor of Lyme Regis in Dorset in 1611. He married Fayth Ellesdon, a daughter of Ralph Ellesdon. [4] His son was Richard Rose (died c. 1658), a Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis (1639–55), who married Elizabeth Henley, a daughter of Henry Henley of Leigh. [4]
He left an only child and sole heiress: [5]
He died on 9 January 1747/48, aged 68. [6] "A stone of eight ounces and one dram was found in his kidneys". [7] His mural monument survives in Broadhembury Church, Devon, erected by his daughter Mrs Drewe. It displays at top the canting arms of Rose: Sable, on a pale or three roses gules slipt and leaved proper; Crest at top: A rose slipped and leaved; bottom: Drewe (Ermine, a lion passant gules) impaling Rose. It is inscribed as follows:
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