A memoir of Caleb B. Rose, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. / by Horace B. Woodward.

  • Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
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[1893]
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Credit: A memoir of Caleb B. Rose, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. / by Horace B. Woodward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Vol. v. ^aafiS^ VII. A MEMOIR OF CALEB B. ROSE, F.R, By Horace B. Woodward, F.G.S., President. Read 28th February, 1893. Among the early workers on Norfolk Geology there were Richard Cowling Taylor,* sometime resident in Norwich as a land surveyor; Samuel Woodward,! clerk in Gurney's Bank; John Gunn,;}; rector of Irstead; and the subject of the present memoir, Caleb Bun ell Rose, surgeon, of Swaffham. Rose was born at Eye, in Suffolk, on February 10th, 1790. As a youth ho was apprenticed to his uncle, a surgeon in that town, and later on pursued his studies in London, at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals. Afterwards he became assistant to a surgeon in Derbyshire, and then, for a short time, took up a practice at Botesdale, in Suffolk. There is no record of his passing any examinations : indeed, in those early days of the century, such qualification was not necessary. Rose went to Swaffham, in Norfolk, in 1816, and there settled down, and practised as a surgeon for forty-three years. In 1836 he became a Member of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, and in the same year was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Ten years later he attained the distinction (by examination) of becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. * R. C. Taylor (1789-] 851) was bom at Banhain in Norfolk; he was third son of Samuel Taylor of New Buckenham. He was engaged for a time on the Ordnance Survey; and settled in the United States about the year 1830. t S. Woodward (1790-1838) ; see Memoir in Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. ii. p. 563; and Geol. Mag. 1891, p. 1. X J. Gunn (1801-1890); see 'Memorials of John Gunn,'8vo. Norwich, 1891.