MEMOIR OF CALEB B. ROSE. 
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VII. 
A MEMOIR OF CALEB B. ROSE, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. 
By Horace B. Woodward, F.G.S., President. 
Read 28th February, 1893. 
A mono 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 Burrell 
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 (1789-1851) was born at Banham 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 1890. 
t S. Woodward (1790-1838) ; see Memoir in Trans. Norfolk and Norwich 
Nat. Soc. vol. ii. p. 563 ; and Geol. Mag. 1891, p. 1. 
J J. Gunn (1801-1890): see ‘Memorials of John Gunn,’ 8vo. Norwich, 
1891. 
