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Rose Aylmer
Rose Whitworth Aylmer (Oct 1779 - 2 Mar 1800) was a young girl who was in love with Poet Walter Savage Landor and later sent to Calcutta, India by her family, where she died within two years.

Early life and background
Rose Aylmer was the only daughter of Henry, fourth Baron Aylmer(died 1785), and his wife Catherine, who was sister to Lord Whitworth, Ambassador to Buonaparte in 1803. Following her husband’s death in 1785 Lady Aylmer remarried to Howel Price and relocated to Pembrokeshire, Wales with her daughter and four sons. It was there Rose met the young aspiring poet Walter Savage Landor.

Death and legacy
Rose was only 17 when, in 1797, she happened to meet poet-writer Landor, then 22, in Wales. Together they would take long walks on the hills. However a year later, in 1798, Rose was sent to India to join her aunt Lady Russell((née Whitworth), wife of Sir Henry Russell. Whitworth), wife of Sir Henry Russell, a decision which some believed to be a move by her family to take her away from this unsuitable suitor. aunt She became engaged to Sir Henry's son, but died of cholera on March 2, 1800, at her uncle's house in Calcutta, aged 20 years. She was burried at the South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.

Following her death Walter penned a poem in her honour:

Ah, what avails the sceptred race,

Ah, what the form divine!

What, every virtue, every grace!

Rose Aylmer, all were thine.

Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes

May weep but never see

A night of memories and sighs

I consecrate to thee.

This poem is known as one of the best works of Landor. It is engraved beside Rose's tomb at Calcutta.

Rose is also credited with having inspired Walter’s poem Gebir having apparently loaned him The Progress of Romance by the Gothic author Clara Reeve which contained the story of The History of Charoba, Queen of Egypt upon which Gebir is based.