Rose Whitty, (November 24, 1831 – May 4, 1911) was anIrishDominicanreligious sister and founder ofconvents. She was a native ofDublin. Of her two sisters one became aReligious of the Sacred Heart; the other, like herself, joined the Dominican Order as a religious sister of theThird Order Regular.
Whitty entered St. Catherine's Convent,Sion Hill,Blackrock, Co. Dublin, in her 19th year, 25 March 1849. Seventeen years later, at the request ofBishop Patrick Moran, who then had charge of the EasternVicariate of South Africa, she with five others began their work atPort Elizabeth, 23 November 1867. She served for 25 years asprioress of Rosemary Convent, which she had founded. Thediamond jubilee of herreligious profession was celebrated in 1910, and a Mother Rosescholarship was founded as an appropriate memorial of her long devotion to the work of education.
Whitty remained in good health until a month or two before her death in her 80th year. She was buried in the cemetery of Emerald Hill Priory, one of the convents which she had founded, on 6 May 1911.
Russell, Matthew (1912)."Rose Whitty" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company.