Sir David James Gardiner Rose GCMG CVO MBE CPM (10 April 1923 – 10 November 1969) was Governor-General of Guyana from 1966 to 1969.
Rose was born in Mahaica in British Guiana on 10 April 1923,[1] and was educated at Mount St Mary's College in England.
[3] He was then transferred to a newly independent Guyana, where he served as Governor General from 1966 to 1969.
He had been luncheoning at the West Indian Club, Whitehall Court, when some scaffolding collapsed upon a car in which he found himself.
[1] He was the first to be buried at the Place of Heroes inside the Botanical Gardens in Georgetown, Guyana.