Thomas Rose (of Manchester)
Fire Brigade Superintendent and later fire appliance merchant and manufacturer of Manchester.
Thomas Rose, born 10 Jul 1824, son of William Rose and his 1st wife Esther Marsden.[1]
Educated at the Quaker School, Mount Street, Manchester.[2]
1842 Joined Manchester Fire Brigade, working with his father who was Superintendent of Fire Engines for Manchester. [3]
1843 Thomas Rose agent for new patented woven canvas fire hose. [4]
1846 Appointed Superintendent of Manchester Fire Brigade, in succession to his father.[5]
1861 Tendered resignation as superintendent of fire brigade. He intended to establish himself as a fire consulting engineer.[6] He was succeeded by Alfred Tozer.
1861 Appointed agent for the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, a post he would hold until his death.[7]
1867 Took over his father’s fire engine business in Victoria Street.[8] “FIRE, FIRE, FIRE.—THOMAS ROSE, 37, Victoria-street, Sole Manufacturer Tozer's HAND PUMPS, FIRE ENGINES, HOSE,&c. the only subduers of fire.”
1869 Directory entry - Fire Engine Manufacturer, 37 Victoria Street, Manchester. [9]
1869 Joseph Hall of Vulcan Fire Engine Works, Oldham gave notice that he was discontinuing supply of fire engines for Mr Rose, having supplied over 100 such machines.[10]
1870 Advert - "Fire Engine and Hose Depot, 37 Victoria Street. Thomas Rose, manufacturer of fire engines and fire escapes, hose and fire apperatus; also Tozer's pump, the most powerful extant."[11]
1876 Directory entry - Thomas Rose, Agent for the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, 14 Bank St., Exchange, and manufacturer of fire engines etc., 37 Victoria Street; house 4 Tivoli Place, Pooley’s Park, City Road.[12]
1879 Advert - Thomas Rose, Victoria Street, Manchester. Manufacturers of Fire Engines and Force Pumps of all kinds, Fire Escapes, Canvas and Leather Hose Pipes, Union Joints, Stand Pipes, Landing Valves and every description of Fire Extinguishing Apparatus.[13]
1880 Rose's fire engine works removed to new buildings, corner of Victoria Bridge, Deansgate, Manchester.[14]
1881 Fire equipment business passed into the hands of Thomas's half-brother William, trading as William Rose and Co at Grosvenor Buildings, Deansgate.[15]
1886 Thomas Rose died a bachelor on 11 Nov 1886, aged 61, at his residence, 4 Tivoli Place, Cornbrook.[16]
Other interests
1867-1884 Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (resigned 4 Nov 1884).[17]
1875-1886 Director of William Jessop and Sons, steel makers of Sheffield.
1878(?)-1886 Director of Lancashire and Yorkshire Accident Insurance Company.[18]
See also Mr. Rose of Manchester.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Burke's Family Records and Monumental Inscription, Southern Cemetery, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy
- ↑ Obituary, Manchester Courier - 13 Nov 1886
- ↑ Manchester Times - 11 Jun 1842
- ↑ Manchester Times - 2 Dec 1843
- ↑ Manchester Courier - 2 Sep 1846, Manchester Daily Examiner & Times - Friday 26 July 1861 and Obituary, Manchester Courier - 13 Nov 1886
- ↑ Manchester Daily Examiner & Times - Friday 26 July 1861
- ↑ Manchester Courier - 13 Jul 1861
- ↑ Manchester Courier - 18 Nov 1867
- ↑ Slater’s Directory of Lancashire 1869
- ↑ Manchester Courier - 14 Jul 1869
- ↑ Manchester Courier - 8 Jan 1870
- ↑ Slater’s Directory of Manchester and Salford 1876
- ↑ Lloyd’s List – 25 Jan 1879
- ↑ Manchester Courier - 29 Jul 1880
- ↑ Manchester Courier - 4 Jun 1881
- ↑ Obituary, Manchester Courier - 13 Nov 1886
- ↑ IMechE Records
- ↑ Manchester Evening News - 15 Nov 1886