Rose Kingston

Rose Alice McIntyre (née Kingston, formerly Walmer and Jackson; 1932-1997) was an English businesswoman and the co-owner of The Highland hotel, which she ran alongside her husband Jack McIntyre, for twenty-three years, before her death. She is the former wife of Larry Walmer and Edwin Jackson, and the mother of Stanley, William and Samantha. She died in Leicester, in 1997.

Biography

McIntyre was born in Germany, whilst her father was fighting in the British Army, though she was raised in Leicester, her father was George Kingston and her mother was Wendy Williams.

At the age of 23, she married Edwin Jackson, though their marriage was short-lived, as he moved to America, and became a businessman. She then married Larry Walmer, who she had three children with.

Private life

In 1955, McIntyre married Edwin Jackson in Leicester, he wanted to become a distiller and was offered a job in America, leading to their divorce.

In 1958, she married Larry Walmer in the same city, they went on to have three children named Stanley (b. 1960), William (b. 1961) and Samantha (b. 1964). Walmer worked as an art dealer, and later owned his own gallery called Walmer Galleries. Their marriage ended in 1973, with Walmer's death.

In 1974, a year after becoming widowed, McIntyre married for the third time, to Jack McIntyre, who was going through clinical depression, as his hotel had to be closed down. McIntyre paid for the hotel to be re-opened and refurbished and renamed to The Highland hotel, which she co-owned alongside him. Their marriage was successful, until her death in 1997.

Death

In 1997, whilst crossing across the road from The Highland hotel, she was ran over by a speeding Ford Escort, and was rushed to the hospital in a fatal condition. Her husband Jack was called the hospital, by one of the nurses, and was told when he arrived there, that she had died.

She was buried at St. Matthew's Cemetery in Leicester, where her husband was also buried eight years later.