Thomas Stuart Rose (London, 2 October 1911 – 10 September 1993, Coggeshall)[1] CBE was the first Design Director to the British Post Office 1968-76.
In 1974 he was awarded the Phillips Gold Medal for stamp design and was appointed CBE the same year.
[2] He first worked under Ashley Havinden at the leading advertising agency Crawfords and later under Sir Francis Meynell.
He replaced Francis Meynell as Typographical Adviser to the Postmaster General in 1962 and became the first Design Director at the Post Office in 1968, which post he held until his retirement in 1976.
In the 1950s, Rose was instrumental in creating in Suffolk the first new civil parish since about 1880.