Rose, Daniel Warner (1792-1797)

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Adm. pens. at JESUS, Jan. 8, 1788. [S. of John, Provost-Marshall General in Antigua (and Alice Ireland). B. Jan. 15, 1769. School, Charterhouse.] ' Matric. Michs. 1789; Scholar, 1790; B.A. 1793. R. of the Bahamas, 1795-1804. R. of St Ann and Hanover, Jamaica, 1804. Master of the Free School, Lucea, Jamaica, 1809. ‘In 1815 the Commissaries, exercising authority in the absence of a Bishop, had to investigate the complaint of Mr Edward Gardiner, a retired dragoon living on his estate in Jamaica, who wrote to the Governor, the Duke of Manchester, to complain of the conduct and language of the Rev. D. W. Rose, who had called him a “cowardly rascal and scoundrel” and had further “wrought him up to a frenzy by the accompaniment of an effort to throw a glass, a case bottle, and a pitcher of water at his head....” The provocation received by Mr Rose certainly did not justify either his language or his conduct. He had offered to baptize all the negroes on Mr Gardiner's estate at Flint River in return for a fee consisting of a puncheon of rum. Mr Gardiner had declined, alleging that in his opinion, baptism administered under such circumstances could hardly affect the condition of its recipients. Hence Mr Rose's wrath.... The Commissaries decided that they had no jurisdiction in such a matter.’ Married (1) Sarah Frances Jones, of St Kitts; (2) Ann –, and had issue, a dau. who died aged 3. Died, s.p.m., Mar. 19, 1824, at Lucea. (Diocese of Jamaica; J. B. Ellis; R. L. Arrowsmith; V. L. Oliver, Hist. of Antigua, III. 52 (where is a pedigree); W. Cowper.)

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