Archibald Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery

Tags: Prime Minister.

Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery 1st Earl of Midlothian KG PC (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister. Between the death of his father in 1851 and the death of his grandfather the 4th Earl in 1868 he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny.

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active years end date

1886-08-03, 1894-03-10, 1895-06-21, 1895-06-22, 1896-10-06

active years start date

1886-02-06, 1892-08-18, 1894-03-05, 1894-03-10, 1895-06-22

alma mater

Christ Church Oxford

birth date

1847-05-07

birth place

London, Berkeley Square

death date

1929-05-21

death place

Surrey, Epsom

monarch

Queen Victoria

order in office

Leader of the Opposition, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord President of the Council, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

party

Liberal Party (UK)

prime minister

William Ewart Gladstone

religion

Anglicanism

spouse

Hannah Primrose Countess of Rosebery

successor

John Wodehouse 1st Earl of Kimberley, Stafford Northcote 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, William Vernon Harcourt (politician), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Spencer Cavendish 8th Duke of Devonshire