) for
Vanity Fair Born in Montreal, he was the second son of
Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet. His father moved from Scotland to Canada, where he was successively
Solicitor General,
Minister of Public Works and
Minister of Finance. Rose was educated at the
High School of Montreal and
Rugby School. He was commissioned into the
Montreal Garrison Artillery, and repelled the
Fenian raid of 1870. He had completed the purchase of
Hardwick House shortly beforehand. At the
1900 general election, he stood as a Liberal candidate for the
Newmarket constituency, but failed to unseat the sitting
Conservative member and fellow horse breeder,
Colonel Harry McCalmont. He held the seat at the
1906 election, but was defeated in
January 1910. He regained the seat when a further election was held in
December of the same year. Another of Sir Charles's interests was aviation, and he was president of the
Royal Aero Club. In April 1913, he was returning from a flight at
Hendon Aerodrome by motor car when he died from a
heart attack at age 65. ==Family==