Education
Rose was educated at Bury Grammar School and Manchester University.
Rose was educated at Bury Grammar School and Manchester University.
He was chairman of the Manchester Federation of Young Socialists. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Gray"s Inn in 1958. He became Chairman of the Manchester Left Club and edited a youth page for "labour"s Northern Voice" and led the Suez Demonstrations in Manchester in 1956.
His main interests were industrial safety, Northern Ireland and civil liberties and he was active in the field of human rights not least in relation to Greece under the rule of the Colonels.
He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Barbara Castle at the Ministry of Transport and after 1970 spoke for the Labour opposition on industrial relations. He stepped down in 1979, and later joined the Social Democratic Party in the 1980s.
Rose noted discrimination against Catholics in Northern Ireland and in the early 60"s was one of the first to predict The Troubles. He became Chairman of the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster, Chairman of the North West Sports Council, and Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party Home Office Group.
He served on the Council of Europe and was Vice-Chairman of Labour Campaign for Europe.
He became a coroner in the south of London. He was a Deputy Circuit Judge and a Participant Time Immigration and Political Asylum Adjudicator. He also contributed many articles to newspapers and magazines on History, Law and politics.
He died on 3 November 2015, aged 79.
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Rose was elected Member of Parliament for Manchester Blackley in 1964. He was also a member of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group.