Alfred Carey Wollaston Rose (1884 – 9 April 1971)[1][2] was the sixth Bishop of Dover, England, in the modern era,[3][2] from 1935[4] to 1956.
[5] The son of Arthur Wollaston Rose, Vicar of Wilstead, Bedfordshire,[2][6] he was educated at Marlborough, and Worcester College, Oxford.
He began his ministry with a curacy at St Mary, Somers Town, London (1909–1914); after which he served a period as a Royal Navy chaplain during World War I (1914–1919).
[13] Throughout his retirement, he continued to serve the Church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Canterbury and as a Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
[11] Geoffrey Fisher, former Archbishop of Canterbury, paid tribute to him as a man who won the trust of people ‘...wherever he went by his personal graces, his intense interest in them and all that concerned them, his ready humour and engaging laughter, his well stocked mind, his unfailing spirit of personal integrity, of pastoral devotion and faith.’ [14] Rose married Lois née Garton in 1920 and they had four sons,[2] one of whom, Clive Rose, was a diplomat who served as Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council.