Background
Born in Montreal, he was the second son of Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet. His father moved from Scotland to Canada, where he was successively Solicitor General, Minister of Public Works and Minister of Finance.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Born in Montreal, he was the second son of Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet. His father moved from Scotland to Canada, where he was successively Solicitor General, Minister of Public Works and Minister of Finance.
Rose was educated at Montreal High School and Rugby School.
He was commissioned in the Montreal Garrison Artillery, and was involved in repelling the Fenian raid of 1870. His two eldest sons both died in the Second Boer War. In the late 1880s and early 1890s he was a leading horse race breeder, based at Newmarket, Suffolk.
His most successful horse was Ravensbury, but it was overshadowed by Isinglass, owned by Harry McCalmont, Conservative Member of Parliament for Newmarket.
He was also the owner and breeder of the influential stallion Cyllene. Rose was created a baronet of "Hardwick House in the Parish of Whitchurch in the County of Oxford" on 19 July 1909.
He had completed the purchase of Hardwick House shortly beforehand. Rose is said to have been one of the models for "Toad" of Toad Hall in the Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Grahame"s illustrator East. H. Shepherd used parts of Hardwick House in his drawings.
At the 1900 general election he stood as Liberal candidate for the Newmarket constituency, but failed to unseat the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament, and fellow horse breeder, Colonel Harry McCalmont.
He held the seat at the 1906 election, but was defeated in January 1910. He regained the seat when a further election was held in December of the same year. Another of Sir Charles"s interests was aviation, and he was president of the Royal Aeronautical Club.
In April 1913 he was returning from a flight at Hendon Aerodrome by motor car when he died from a heart attack, aged 65.
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He was elected a member of the Jockey Club in 1891.
In 1893 Rose took up yachting, competing in a number of competitive events and was a member of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club.