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The Right Honourable Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet, KCMG , PC ( August 2 1820 – August 24 1888 ) was a Canadian Politician . He was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire , Scotland and emigrated to Lower Canada with his parents in 1836 where he was active in suppressing the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 . He was admitted to the bar in 1842 and established a commercial practice in Montreal . From 1857 until 1867 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly Of The Province Of Canada and was a member of the Executive Council from 1858 until 1861 . He was Lower Canada's Solicitor General from 1857 to 1858 and from 1858 to 1859 and also acted as various times as commissioner of Public Works and Receiver General. In 1864 , the British government appointed him to the commission to settle claims under the Oregon Treaty with the United States . Rose was a delegate to the Colonial Conference in London in 1867 and again in 1868 . In 1869 , Rose moved to England to practice law and acted as an unofficial representative of the Canadian government. He also sat on a number of Royal Commission s in Britain and became a Baronet in 1872 and a member of the Imperial Privy Council in 1886 . Following his passing in 1888, Sir John Rose was interred in Guildford , England , near the country estate named "Losely Park," a place he had rented for some years. EXTERNAL LINKS
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