Alfred Rose (bishop)
{{Short description|British bishop}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| name = Alfred Rose
| title = Bishop of Dover
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| diocese = Diocese of Canterbury
| term = 1935–1956
| predecessor = John Macmillan
| successor = Lewis Meredith
| other_post = Vicar of Brighton (1928–1935)
Assistant Bishop of Canterbury (1956–1971)
| ordination = 1909
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| consecration = 1935
| consecrated_by = Cosmo Gordon Lang
|birth_name=Alfred Carey Wollaston Rose
| birth_date = {{birth year|1884}}
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| death_date = {{death date|1971|4|9|df=y}} (aged 86)
| death_place = Canterbury, Kent, {{nowrap|United Kingdom}}
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| nationality = British
| religion = Anglican
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| parents = A. Rose (a vicar)
| spouse = Lois née Garton
| children = four sons, inc. Clive
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| alma_mater = Worcester College, Oxford
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Alfred Carey Wollaston Rose (1884{{snd}}9 April 1971)Deaths The Times Monday, 12 April 1971; p. 12; Issue 58144; col A. was the sixth Bishop of Dover, England, in the modern era,[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code=='DS/UK/5993'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Who's Who | title=Rose, Alfred Carey Wollaston | id = U159126 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 6 January 2017 }} from 1935New Bishop of Dover — Vicar of Brighton Appointed The Times Monday, 12 November 1934; p. 14; Issue 46909; col F. to 1956.Bishop of Dover to Resign The Times Monday, 22 October 1956; p. 8; Issue 53668; col F.
Life
The son of Arthur Wollaston Rose, Vicar of Wilstead, Bedfordshire,{{acad|id=RS878AW|name=Rose, Arthur Wollaston}} 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).
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."TNA ADM6/444/416 has information re RN service
When peace returned, he became Sub-Warden of the Bishop's Hostel, Lincoln (1919–1920) and then Warden (1921–1927), during which time he also served as Vicar of Haigh, Lancashire (1920–1921) and a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral (1927–1928). He then became Vicar of St Peter's Church, Brighton and 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.[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=109-aa_1-1_1-2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 Documents held by The National Archives]
His appointment to become Bishop of Dover, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Canterbury, was announced on 16 November 1934{{Church Times | title = Canterbury diocese. New Bishop of Dover. | archive = 1934_11_16_538 | issue = 3747 | date = 16 November 1934 | page = 538 | accessed = 7 January 2017 }} and he was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Canterbury Cathedral on the Feast of the Circumcision (1 January) 1935.{{Church Times | title = Canterbury cathedral. Consecration of the Bishop of Dover. | archive = 1935_01_04_010 | issue = 3754 | date = 4 January 1935 | page = 10 | accessed = 7 January 2017 }} After serving in that role for 21 years — working with four archbishops (Lang, Temple, Fisher, and Ramsey) and twice acting up as diocesan bishop — , he retired at the end of 1956,{{Church Times | title = Bishop of Dover's retirement | archive = 1956_10_26_001 | issue = 4889 | date = 26 October 1956 | page = 1 | accessed = 7 January 2017 }} going first to briefly serve as chaplain (vicar) of Palermo, Sicily.{{Church Times | title = Bishop for Sicily | archive = 1957_01_18_001 | issue = 4901 | date = 18 January 1957 | page = 1 | accessed = 7 January 2017 }} Throughout his retirement, he continued to serve the Church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Canterbury and as a Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. He died, aged 86, in Canterbury on Good Friday, 9 April 1971.{{Church Times | title = In memoriam: Bishop Alfred Rose and Clerical obituary | archive = 1971_04_16_015 | issue = 5644 | date = 16 April 1971 | page = 15 | accessed = 7 January 2017 }}
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.’ The Times obituary, 20.4.1971. Letter from Lord Fisher of Lambeth.
Family
Rose married Lois née Garton in 1920 and they had four sons, one of whom, Clive Rose, was a diplomat who served as Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council.
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Category:People educated at Marlborough College
Category:Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
Category:Honorary chaplains to the King
Category:Bishops of Dover, Kent
Category:20th-century Church of England bishops
Category:Sub-Prelates of the Venerable Order of Saint John