Sir Charles Rose, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Day Rose, 1st Baronet (23 August 1847 – 20 April 1913) was a British-Canadian businessman, race horse breeder, yachtsman, and Liberal politician.

Member of parliament for Newmarket and President of the Royal Aero Club, he has been suggested as the inspiration for Toad in The Wind in the Willows.

[1] He subsequently entered business as a partner in an American bank based in the City of London and part of the syndicate promoting the Canadian Pacific Railway.

[3] At the 1900 general election, he stood as a Liberal candidate for the Newmarket constituency, but failed to unseat the sitting Conservative member and fellow horse breeder, Colonel Harry McCalmont.

[1] His final surviving son, Frank Stanley Rose, succeeded him in the baronetcy, but died less than two years later on 26 October 1914 in the First World War.