Frank Atcherley Rose (5 October 1873 – 30 May 1935) was a well known British specialist in diseases of the throat, Surgeon to the Throat and Nose Department at
St Bartholomew's Hospital and Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat,
Golden Square (now the
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital).
[Obituary, ''Mr F.A. Rose'', '' The Times'', 1 June 1935, p.19]
Life
Rose was born on 5 October 1873 in
Bedford, the son of Edward Paine Rose and Fanny Atcherley. He was educated at
Bedford Modern School and
St John's College, Cambridge
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where he gained first class honours in the
Natural Sciences Tripos
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.
In 1895 he started his medical training at
St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Shuter prize and was house surgeon to
Sir Henry Butlin.
In 1902 he graduated M.B., B.Ch.Camb and was made a
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1903.
He served during
World War I as a Captain (R.A.M.C. (T)) and in 1930 was elected President of the Laryngological Society.
Having decided to specialise in laryngology, Rose became assistant surgeon at the
Royal Northern Hospital and was placed in charge of the throat and nose departments at
St Bartholomew's Hospital on the resignation of Mr W.D. Harmer (1928–31).
In 1912 Rose married Marian Elisabeth Darling, the daughter of Dr. A.C.E. Harris of
Birkenhead.
She died in 1919 leaving him with a son and a daughter.
Rose died in
Bedford on 30 May 1935.
References
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1873 births
1935 deaths
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
People educated at Bedford Modern School