A leading specialist in the epidemiology and treatment of heart disease, was born on 19 April 1926. He was the son of the Rev. Arthur N. Rose (3 November 1892 - 24 June 1979; e.m. 1914; Ministerial Training Secretary from 1948). Educated at Oxford and St. Mary's Hospital, London, from 1959 he lectured at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, then as Professor of Epidemiology from 1970 gained an international reputation, especially though his involvement in INTERSALT, an international study of blood-pressure patterns which emphasized prevention by linking individual health and that of whole communities. He died at High Wycombe on 12 November 1993.