Fulke Rose

He was one of the principal buyers in Jamaica of slaves taken by the Royal African Company and had extensive land-holdings on the island.

He had brothers Thomas and Francis who were resident in Jamaica, John who was a merchant in London and William who was an apothecary who was one of the parties in Rose v Royal College of Physicians (1701–03).

"[3] He was one of the principal buyers in Jamaica of slaves from the Royal African Company from which he bought 131 persons, of whom 42% came from the Bight of Benin and 32% from the Gold Coast (modern Ghana).

[10] In early 1688, he and Hans Sloane attended the former privateer Henry Morgan for a swollen belly and other ailments that were attributed by his doctors to excessive alcohol and lack of exercise.

but that not being completely satisfactory they,[10] gave him all manner of Diuretics, and easie Purgers we could find in Jamaica, Linseed and Juniper-Berries infus'd in Rhenish-Wine, Milleped.

[3] In 1695, his widow Elizabeth Langley Rose took as her second husband Sir Hans Sloane,[13] meaning that her one-third share of the income from Rose's estates ultimately became available to Sloane who received regular shipments of hogsheads of sugar in the following years.

Near Mickleton, Gloucestershire [ 1 ]
St. Thomas in the Vale from Mount Diablo by James Hakewill from A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica , 1820s.
Henry Morgan as imagined in Alexandre Exquemelin 's Piratas de la America (1681) [ 5 ]
The Port Royal earthquake of 1692 as imagined by Jan Luyken . Published by Pieter van der Aa
View of Port Royal, Jamaica by Richard Paton. Oil on canvas, 1758. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. [ 12 ]