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Irving Rose è nato a Glasgow il 16 febbraio del 1938, figlio d'arte in quanto suo padre Louis è stato uno dei maggiori giocatori scozzesi.
"The Great Rose" era particolarmente conosciuto per la sua abilità di manager di club essendosi misurato con successo in tutti i maggiori circoli Britannici iniziando dal Crockford's e finendo al TGR's.
Avendo vissuto un paio d'anni nel sud della Francia parlava fluentemente il francese.
Sposò Annette Rye, una non bridgista figlia della notissima Honor Flint (il patrigno era il grande Jeremy Flint) dalla quale ebbe un figlio.
Come giocatore vinse il bronzo nei Campionati Europei del 1967 e l'argento in quelli del 1981 e conquistò ancora un bronzo nelle Olimpiadi del 1976.
Problemi di cuore causarono l'abbandono della sua attività al TGR's e un trasferimento in Sud Africa per un cambiamento di clima che purtroppo non fu risolutivo.
Morì a Cape Town in Sud Africa il 17 maggio del 1996 a causa di un infarto.
Irving Rose was born in 1938 in Glasgow.
His father, Louis, was one of Scotland’s leading bridge players,
and Rose took enthusiastically to the game as a teenager.
He was known to bridge-players principally through his management over thirty years of London’s leading bridge clubs, starting with Crockford’s and ending with TGR’s, named in his honour.
An addiction to rubber bridge for high stakes, at which he was highly successful, spread to other forms of gambling at which he could not buck the odds.
Having lived a few years in the south of France spoke fluent French.
In 1967 he married Annette, no bridge player but daughter of legendary Honor Rye Flint (Jeremy Flint was her stepfather). The same year, with Alan Hiron as his partner, he represented Britain at the Dublin European championships, earning the bronze medal.
A partnership with Robert Sheehan, now bridge correspondent of The Times, led to fifth place in the 1974 World Pairs in Las Palmas. In the ‘76 Olympiad, where Rose partnered Jeremy Flint, Britain was third.
In the 1981 Europeans in Birmingham Rose and Sheehan were in the British team which won the silver medal.
Health problems caused Rose to leave TGR’s two years ago to recuperate with friends in South Africa. He returned to London earlier this year to compete in the Macallan International Pairs, the last time his many friends in Britain were to see him in action at the bridge table.
Irving Rose, who has died aged 58 of a heart attack in South Africa, was one of Britain’s most charismatic players and became famous as The Great Rose.
