Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery ( born May 7, 1847 in London, † May 21 1929 in Epsom, Surrey ) was a British statesman.
Origin and Early Years
Archibald was the eldest son and third of four children of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, and his wife Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope. His father died when he was three years old.
Primrose was educated at Eton and Oxford. He became, after his father had died early, by the death of his grandfather, Archibald John Primrose (1783-1868), the 4th Earl of Rosebery in 1868 the peerage. This was one of the elected to the House of Lords peers of Scotland, who as Baron Rosebery in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1828 received a permanent seat in the upper house. The fourth Earl was an active supporter of the Reform Bill. The Scottish earldom was first awarded in 1703 to the great-grandfather of the fourth Earl, Archibald Primrose ( 1664-1723 ), a convinced Whig and member of the Association Commission.
The mother of the 5th Earl, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope, the only daughter of Philip Henry Stanhope was, 4th Earl Stanhope ( 1781-1855 ). She was thus the sister of the British historian Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope ( 1805-1875 ), and a niece of Lady Hester Stanhope, niece of William Pitt. She was a celebrated beauty, maid of honor and bridesmaid of Queen Victoria. On December 20, 1843, she married Archibald, Lord Dalmeny ( 1809-1851 ), the Lord of the Admiralty was Melbourne. After his death, she married her second husband Harry George Vane, 4th Duke of Cleveland. She died in 1901.
Marriage and family
Primrose married in 1878 Hannah Rothschild, the only daughter and heiress of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild. This was after the death of her father the richest woman in the United Kingdom. Your belonged among other Mentmore Towers, a large English country house in Buckinghamshire, as well as a fortune of more than two million pounds.
The couple had four children. Hanna died in 1890 of typhoid fever. Three years after the death of his wife, John Sholto Douglas him, 9th Marquess of Queensberry accused Primrose have - as Oscar Wilde - a homosexual relationship with his son. Whether this claim was true until today is just as clear as the general finding Primrose was assessed bisexual.
Political career
From 1878 to 1879 Primrose was Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen. In 1881 he was appointed by Gladstone, who owed him the electoral success of the Liberals in 1880 in part, to the Under Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior. After he resigned this office in 1883, he was appointed the new Mr. Gladstone's Ministry for Foreign Minister in February 1886 but resigned in July with Gladstone back.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 1892 to 1894, from 1894 to 1895 and Prime Minister in 1895, Lord Privy Seal ( Lord Privy Seal)
When Gladstone resigned in 1894, Primrose became his successor as Prime Minister, because Queen Victoria refused the other leading liberals. His reign was very successful. His attempts to increase the naval armaments, found resistance in the Liberal Party. So he resigned already on 21 June 1895, made his successor, Robert Gascoyne - Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, space. On October 8, he resigned as leader of the Liberal Party and away more and more of their course; because he supported the Boer War and spoke out against Home Rule for Ireland from.
Later life
After saying goodbye to politics, he turned back to his writing.
Primroses library was sold at auction in 2009 at Sotheby's in London.
Quotes
- "There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is When a Man Receives The seals of office from his Sovereign. The real pleasure comes When He hands them back ".