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Archibald Primrose

Born: 7 May 1847

Died: 21 May 1929

Baron Dalmeny - 1851

5th Earl of Rosebery - May 1868

1st Earl of Midlothian - 3 July 1911

Knighted - 1892

Member of Privy Council - 1881

husband of Hannah de Rothschild

son of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny

son of Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope

Eton College (1860 - 1865)

Christ Church, Oxford (1866 - 1869)

Under Secretary of State, Home Office	8 August 1881	7 June 1883
First Commissioner of Works	13 February 1885	19 June 1885
Lord Privy Seal	5 March 1885	9 June 1885
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	6 February 1886	20 July 1886
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	18 August 1892	11 March 1894
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	3 March 1894	2 July 1895
Lord President of the Council	5 March 1894	29 June 1895