[1] Rose served until 1707 at which point he became one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain.

[1] While Sheriff, although he himself had resigned from Parliament, he used his position to appoint his son, Hugh MP for Ross-shire.

Following the 1715 Uprising, Rose and his son moved more into the support of Argyll through their connection through the Campbells of Cawdor, at which point he lost the position of Sheriff of Ross.

[1] Rose married, firstly, Margaret Campbell, daughter of Sir Hugh Campbell, 5th of Cawdor and Lady Henrietta Stuart, daughter of James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray, on 19 October 1683, they had three children.

[2] Rose died of a fever of cold at Kilravock, on 23 January 1732, and was buried with his forebears in the chapel of Geddes.

An 18th-century panegyric conceals the quick temper and shiftiness of its subject in a portrait which would have done more credit to his mother's devout Presbyterianism than to the family's recurring talent for compromise:[1] The laird of Kilravock was of .

he despised the growing luxury and vanity of the age, and he rather affected a primitive simplicity than studied the politeness and effeminacy of the times.