Henry Rose (1675-1743) was an Irish politician and

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of the eighteenth century. He was born at Morgans in

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, younger son of George Rose of Morgans North, and grandson of Thomas Rose, who was

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in 1695. Thomas had emigrated to Ireland from

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in the late seventeenth century and acquired the Morgans estate. Henry was educated at

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, entered the

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in 1696 and was called to the

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in 1701. He sat in the

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for many years as member for

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. He was considered one of the most effective Parliamentarians of his day, and almost always spoke and voted against the Government. Given his record of opposition, his appointment as a justice of the

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in 1734 caused some surprise, although he had been counsel to the Revenue Commissioners since 1722. He probably owed the first appointment to his friendship with

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, the long-serving Speaker of the Commons. He went regularly on

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, except in the

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year 1741, when a rampant

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made the journey too dangerous, and three of the few judges who braved the perils of the journey succumbed to a fatal illness. He died suddenly in 1743. In addition to his estate at Morgans he had a

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townhouse on

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. He married Anne Crosbie, daughter of David Crosbie of

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and Jane Hamilton, and sister of

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. She died in 1740. They had two children, George, who inherited Morgans, and Sarah. Sarah married as her first husband her cousin John Southwell of Enniscourt, County Limerick, only son of Richard Southwell MP and Agnes Rose, daughter of Henry's brother George, and had a daughter Agnes Elizabeth, who married

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. After Southwell's death, Sarah remarried into the Talbot family of Mount Talbot,

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Sources

*Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926 *Burke, Sir Bernard ''The Landed Gentry of Ireland'' London 1912 *Smyth, Joseph Constantine ''Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland'' London 1839 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Henry Justices of the Irish King's Bench Members of the Inner Temple Alumni of Magdalen Hall, Oxford Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kerry constituencies