 He was the eighth of nine children and lived in a small lakeside farm that he later described as his "Eden".His first and middle names relate to two doctors associated with his family, Dr Fraser McAulay, who delivered Rose after walking through a snowstorm, and Dr Macintosh, a friend of Rose senior.He returned to Scotland in 1909, at the age of 12, when his family settled on the Hebridean Isle of Lewis at the Manse of the Free Church in Crossbost.