Rev. Urquhart Gillespie Rose

Profile & Legacies Summary

10^th Apr 1795 - 1826

Biography

Headmaster of Jamaica College c. 1818-1825. Son of John Cross Rose and Mary nee Gillespie, born 10/04/1795 and baptised 16/04/1798. Two children baptised in St Ann, Jamaica, mother Susannah Newby Rose: John Charles (1818) and Ann Bromley (1825).

Sources

Urquhart Gillespie Rose is in the Clergy of the Church of England Database online, person ID 121556; Ancestry.com, Urquhart Gillespie Rose in the Jamaica, Select Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920 [database online]. See http://www.jcobaca.org/about/in-the-past/principals [accessed 04/03/2013] and http://www.jcobaca.org/early-years-part-1/ [accessed 11/10/2019] for his role at Jamaica College; Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online]. Death-date is from the Record of Burials in the Parish of Vere 1826 1827 and 1828, which shows him buried 23 March [1826] aged 31.

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Absentee?

Spouse

Susannah Newby [surname unknown]

Children

John Charles (1818-), Ann Bromley (1825-)

Occupation

Clergyman

Religion

Church of England

Associated Estates (1)

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