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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 West Indies
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He then obtained a position in the See also: Civil Service, becoming joint keeper of the records in 1772 and secretary to the See also: board of taxes in 1777
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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 parliament
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He left 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 Pitt's See also: ministry, being henceforward one of this See also: minister's most steadfast supporters
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He entered parliament as member for See also: Launceston
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
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In 18ot See also: Rose left office with Pitt, but returned with him to power in 1804, when he was made See also: vice-president of the committee on See also: trade and joint paymaster-general
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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 duke of See also: Portland and See also: Spencer See also: Perceval from 1807 to 1812
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He was again treasurer of the navy under Lord 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 Hampshire, on the 13th of See also: January 1818
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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 Gift to old See also: George Rose." He wrote several books on economic subjects, and his Diaries and See also: Correspondence, edited by the Rev
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See also: Harcourt, was published in 1860
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His 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 Berlin; in 1818 he succeeded his See also: father as clerk of the parliaments
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He was the father of Baron See also: Strathnairn (q.v.)
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The second son was the poet William See also: Stewart Rose (q.v.)
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