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Place of Birth: Harvey, Western Australia, Australia
About Edwin Rose
- Edwin Rose (12 December 1863 – 11 January 1948) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1916 to 1934, representing South-West Province. Rose was born in Harvey, Western Australia, to Annie Bishop (née Allnutt) and Robert Henry Rose.
- Having followed their father into farming, in 1887 he and his brother George Canler Rose became managers and part-owners of Quanbun Station, a pastoral lease in the Kimberley.
- They were later also involved with Cherrabun Station.
- In 1898, Rose returned to the South-West, purchasing a farm in Brunswick.
- He served on the Harvey Road Board in 1910.
- Rose entered parliament at the 1916 Legislative Council elections, standing for the Liberal Party.
- He switched to the Nationalist Party upon its foundation the following year, and was re-elected as a Nationalist in 1922 and 1928.
- Rose left parliament at the expiration of his third term, in 1934, and eventually retired to Bunbury, dying there in January 1948 (aged 84).
- He had married Janet Louise Clarke in 1902, with whom he had two daughters.
- His father-in-law, Ephraim Clarke, was also a member of the Legislative Council, and the two sat together between 1916 and 1921.
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