Born at Eye in Suffolk on February 10th, 1790, and was apprenticed to his uncle. He then came to London and studied at the United Borough Hospitals. He began to practise at Swaffham, Norfolk, in 1816; married, had children, and was a widower by 1828. He carried on a successful practice, and retired in 1859 to Great Yarmouth, where he died on January 29th, 1872. Caleb Rose (qv) was a son. He was the author of several medical papers, more especially on Entozoa, but his interests lay in geology and he became an authority on the geology of Norfolk. His first publication appeared in 1828, and in 1839 he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society. His fine collection of Norfolk fossils is in the Norwich Museum. He wrote *Sketch of the Geology of West Norfolk*, which appeared originally in the *Philosophical Magazine* for 1885-1836, vii-viii. The paper is full of original observations and sound reasoning. He was the first to call attention to the "Brick Earth of the Valley of the Nar" in the *Proceedings* of the Scientific Society (London, 1840, p. 61). He also described some "Parasitic Borings in the Scales of Fossil Fish" (*Trans Microscopical Soc*, 1855, 2nd ser, iii, 7).