James Rose
Biography
Birth: ca. 1737
Death: aft. 1794
Son of James Rose of Brea (1699-1762) and his wife Margaret Rose, dau of James Rose of Broadley.1 M.A. from the University of Aberdeen, and later a student at Glasgow. Ordianed Deacon in 1768 and Priest in 1769.2
Private tutor of English and Greek in Utrecht (1763-64, at the least)
Life with James Boswell
Rose was Boswell's most intimate acquaintance during his time in Utrecht, 1763-64. He is first mentioned on October 1, 1763, and appears frequently until April 6, 1764, when he left Utrecht, apparently for England where George Dempster met him soon thereafter.3
Notes
Note 1: Boswell tells us, that Rose was a first cousin of Hugh Rose (1705-1772), 17th of Kilravock. Unfortunately, their common grandfather had at least 9 children, making the identification initially seem difficult. However, if we make an educated guess, that only the male descendants continued the family name, possible candidates for Rose's parents are James Rose of Brea (1699-1762) and his wife Margaret Rose, dau of James Rose of Broadley. The 15th of Kilravock had 2 other sons, but both of them seems to have been born after 1730, making it highly improbable that they could have a grown up son in Utrecht in 1763. Also, in a note in Boswell: The Early Years, Pottle mentions that his colleague Prof. Robert Warnock has found evidence that Rose was in fact James Rose, son of James and Margaret mentioned above. The evidence for this identification, according to Pottle, is to be published in the relevant research edition of the Yale papers, which, unfortunately, doesn't seem to appear anytime soon.
Note 2: TEY, p. 492
Note 3: Boswell in Holland 1763-64. p. 263 - letter from Dempster to Boswell
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