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ALDERMAN SIR WILLIAM ROSE.Colonel and Alderman Sir William Anderson Rose, one of the senior magistraies of the City of London, died very suddenly on Friday, the 10th ult., from heart disease, while driving from his residence in Upper Tooting to his place of business at Queenhithe. The deceased Alderman had been ailing for some time past, and had recently obtained leave of absence for six months from his magisterial and civic functions, on the imperative advice of his doctors, who had ordered him to one of the German spas. His tenacity for work kept him, however, to his duties to the very last, and he died on his way to his warehouse in the city. Sir William Rose was elected Alderman of the ward of Queenhithe on the death of Mr. Alderman Hooper in 1854, being then but thirty-four years of age, and in the following year, in the mayorality of Mr. Alderman Salomons, he served the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex mconjunction with Mr. Alderman Kennedy. In 1lt; *he succeeded Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., aftei e latter’s mayorality of two years, as Lord Mayor, an it fell to his duty to receive in the City of London the Princess Alexandra on her entry there prior o her marriage with the Prince of Wales; and later on to head the deputation which presented tier Royal Highness with the splendid wedding giltoi the Corporation. From 1862 to 1865 he represented Southampton in the House of Commons in^the on servative interest, and in 1867 he received the honour of knighthood. For many years he was the Goyernoi of the Irish Society, a body wh.ch controls the management of the extensive estates of the ^°'P tion in Ireland, and from 1870 until last year, w he retired, he was the Colonel of the Royal Lo 1 Militia. He was sixty years of age.
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British Mail
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Jul 01, 1881
Page 8
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