Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery

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Harry Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, in a cartoon by Leslie Ward aka "Spy" in Vanity Fair magazine (September 22, 1904)

Albert Edward Harry Mayer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery , KT , DSO , MC , PC , FRSE (born January 8, 1882 in Dalmeny House , Edinburgh , † May 31, 1974 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and later Conservative Party , the 1906-1910 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) . On 21 May 1929, he inherited the title of the 6th  Earl of Rosebery from the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary peerage ) the Peerage of Scotland , which he held until his death the upper house ( House of Lords ) belonged. He was Lord Lieutenant of the County of Midlothian between 1929 and 1964 and briefly Minister for Scotland in 1945 . In 1947 he was made a Knight of the Thistle Order , the second highest order in the United Kingdom after the Order of the Garter .

Life

Family origin, member of the House of Commons and First World War

Harry Primrose's father was Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , who was Prime Minister between 1894 and 1895 .

Albert Edward Harry Mayer Archibald Primrose, was one of four children and the eldest son of the politician Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , who was Prime Minister between 1894 and 1895 , and his wife Hannah de Rothshild Primrose, Countess of Rosebery. His siblings included his older sister, the writer and artist Lady Sybil Grant , and his younger brother Neil Primrose , who was also a member of the House of Commons. After attending the prestigious Eton College completing his officer training at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was after its completion in 1902 lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) in the Guards Grenadier Regiment Grenadier Guards . He was also a first-class cricket poker players, who in 102 games for the team in the county of Surrey a batting average (batting average) of 22.47 and a bowling average reached 33.33. He was also captain of the Surrey team between 1905 and 1907 and was part of the Scotland team at a game against Australia .

In the general election in 1906 Harry Primrose was in the constituency of Midlothian with 8,348 votes (61.9 percent) as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented there until the general election in January 1910 , the Liberal Party . During the First World War , between 1914 and 1917 he was the military secretary of General Edmund Allenby , who was last in command of the Western Front from 1915 to 1917 at the Battle of the Somme (July 1 to November 18, 1916) and the Battle of Arras ( 9 April to 16 May 1917) used the third army ( third army ) was. For his services he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in 1916 and the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1918 . In addition, he received the Knight's Cross of the French Legion of Honor .

Member of the House of Lords, Lord Lieutenant and Minister of Scotland

Dalmeny House near Edinburgh , home of the Earls of Rosebery

Harry Primrose, the temporarily magistrate (Justice of the Peace) from Edinburgh , was inherited after the death of his father on May 21, 1929 the title of the 6th  Earl of Rosebery from the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary peerage ) the Peerage of Scotland . At the same time he inherited the associated subordinate titles as 6th  Viscount of Rosebery , 6th  Viscount of Inverkeithing , 6th  Lord Dalmeny and Primrose from the Peerage of Scotland and 10th  Baronet Primrose, of Carrington and the title of 3rd  Baron Rosebery , of Rosebery, in the County of Midlothian, from the Peerage of the United Kingdom . Furthermore, he inherited the title of 2nd Earl of Midlothian from the Peerage of the United Kingdom and the associated subordinate title of 2nd  Viscount Mentmore , of Mentmore, in the County of Buckingham, as 2nd  Baron Epsom , from his late father  of Epsom, in the County of Surrey. At the same time, he was by a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) , where he remained until his death on May 31, 1974th

Furthermore, he took over from his late father Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery on October 8, 1929, the office of Lord Lieutenant of the County of Midlothian and held this until June 4, 1964, whereupon Maxwell Inglis, 9th Baronet, his successor started. He was also accepted as Ensign in the Royal Company of Archers , the bodyguard of the British monarch in Scotland, in 1936 and became Lieutenant in 1945 and Captain in 1948 . After serving as Regional Commissioner for Scotland between 1941 and 1945 , he was briefly Minister for Scotland (Secretary of State for Scotland) in the Churchill interim government on May 23, 1945 and held this ministerial office until July 27, 1945 . at the same time, he was on 28 May 1945, member of the secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) .

The Earl of Rosebery, who was a member of the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace in 1946 , became a Knight of the Thistle Order on June 17, 1947 , the second highest order in the United Kingdom after the Order of the Garter . Between 1947 and his death in 1974 he also served as a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission of Scotland and was also appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 1953 .

Marriages and offspring

Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, was married twice. His first marriage was on April 15, 1909, Lady Dorothy Alice Margaret Augusta Grosvenor, daughter of Lord Henry George Grosvenor and Dora Mina Erskine-Wemyss. From this marriage, which was divorced in 1919, the son Archibald Ronald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, and the daughter Lady Helen Dorothy Primrose emerged. His second marriage was on June 24, 1924, with Eva Isabel Marion Bruce, daughter of Major Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare and Constance Mary Beckett. He was married to her for almost fifty years until his death on May 30, 1974. From this marriage, Neil Archibald Primrose and their daughter Lady Mary Primrose emerged, who, however, died at her birth on March 15, 1935. After his death, his second son, Neil Archibald Primrose, inherited the title of 7th Earl of Primrose, as well as the subordinate and related titles, since the eldest son Archibald Ronald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, had already died on November 11, 1931.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Churchill Interim Government / Churchill Second Government
  2. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915--1968 in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  3. ↑ KNIGHTS OF THE THISTLE in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
predecessor Office successor
Archibald Primrose Earl of Rosebery
1929-1974 		Neil Archibald Primrose
Archibald Primrose Earl of Midlothian
1929-1974 		Neil Archibald Primrose
personal data
SURNAME Primrose, Harry, 6th Earl of Rosebery
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Primrose, Albert Edward Harry Mayer Archibald, 6th Earl of Rosebery; Rosebery, Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalmeny House , Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1974