Reverend Edward J. Rose
(1818-1882)
4 June 1861

Volume 4, page 18, sitting number 4141.

Edward Joseph Rose was born on 15 February 1818, son of Joseph and Lydia Rose. He was baptised on 7 May 1818 at Puddlestone, Herefordshire. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated BA in 1841 and MA in 1844. He was ordained a deacon in 1841 and a priest in 1842. From 1845 to 1855 he was Curate of Dalby-on-the-Wolds in Leicestershire. In 1855 he was appointed Rector of Weybridge in Surrey, a post he held until his death in 1882.

On 25 September 1855 at Rothley in Leicestershire he married Mary Ellen Parker, 'eldest daughter of the late Vice-Chancellor Parker, of Rothley Temple, Leicester.' (Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 29 September 1855). 

Reverend Edward Joseph Rose, 'late of Weybridge in the County of Surrey,' died, aged 64, on 3 July 1882 at Mayfield in Sussex. He left an estate valued at £1532.