 Along with particularly John Hunt and others, he made considerable contributions to the "steering committee" that set up the College, which in 1967 was given the royal prefix to become the RCGP.He became its president in 1962.Fraser Rose was born on 3 February 1897 in a small fishing community on Cape Breton Island, South Side River Denys, Nova Scotia, where his father, the Reverend John Rose (1849–1922) had been appointed a minister in 1884.