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Name: ROSE, John Alexander (Dr.)

Photo Source: Andrew Rose

Birth Date: 17 Apr 1873 Enzie, Banffshire

Death Date: 29 Feb 1932 San Francisco

First Date: 1898

Last Date: 1901

Profession: Physician and surgeon from 1897. Uganda Railway - junior Asst. Med. Officer

Area: Tsavo, Voi, Kiu

Married: 1. In Aberdeen 24 Dec 1901 Grace Menzies b. 27 Aug 1868 Aberdeen, d. 8 Apr 1918 Hatton, Warks.; 2. In Vancouver 12 Mar 1920 Mary Jane Onions b. 1899 Oakengates, UK, d. 24 Nov 1960 San Francisco

Children: 1. 2 children died in infancy; John Alexander Gilbert Fiddes MB, ChB, DMR (27 Apr 1905-24 Feb 1985) 2. Don Kilravock (23 Oct 1921 Canada-19 Dec 2006)

Book Reference: North, Caputo, J. H. Paterson ‘The Maneaters of Tsavo’, ‘The Field’ [2460] 17 Feb 1900 p. 205

School: Cultercullen PS, Aberdeenshire (Mather Bursary award 1889); Aberdeen Univ. MA MB ChM DPH

General Information:

North - From Aberdeen; UK appt. as Junior Asst. Medical Officer 18/1/1898; at Ndi 9/6/1898; Asst. MO resident at Railhead 23/2/1899; Tsavo May 1899; at Voi 13/7/1899; given 3 months' notice 25/3/1901

Caputo - Lion killing engineer O'Hara at Voi 11/3/1899 - A physician named Dr. Rose was in Voi at the time and gave a sedative to Mrs O'Hara. While she rested he conducted an autopsy and was able to tell the widow the next day that her husband died instantly and painlessly. Dr. Rose concluded that O'Hara had been lying on his back and that the lion seized his head in its mouth and drove its fangs through his temples into his brain. The lion was killed a few weeks later by a poisoned arrow shot from a tree by a Taita hunter.

Andrew Rose (grandson): Res Physician, Aberdeen City Hospital 1897-1898. He gave a public lecture in Aberdeen 30 June 1900 entitled "Native Tribes of Equatorial East Africa", reported in Proceedings of the Anatomical & Anthropological society, University of Aberdeen 1899-1900

GP and MOH Oakengates, Shropshire, England 1901 - 1911; Report on Lilleshall Colliery Company housing 1911; County Councillor (Liberal) Wrockwardine Wood, Shropshire 1906-1911
Ship Surgeon: SS Athenia 1911-1912
MoH Yeovil, Somerset October 1912 - September 1913
Actg Asst Comm Saskatchewan Board of Public Health, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 1913 - 1915
Medical practice Regina 1915 - 1923
Alderman, Regina City Council 1918 -1919
Spanish Flu Relief Committee, Regina 1918; Acting MoH Regina 1918
Medical practice, San Francisco, California USA 1924 - 1932

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