Neil Archibald Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery, 3rd Earl of Midlothian (born 11 February 1929), styled Lord Primrose between 1931 and 1974, is a Scottish nobleman. He was a member of the

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from 1974 to 1999. His son and heir is Harry Primrose, Lord Dalmeny.

Biography

He is the only surviving son of Harry, Earl of Rosebery. His paternal grandfather was

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death o ...

, the Liberal

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from 1894 to 1895. His paternal grandmother was the heiress Hannah, Countess of Rosebery (daughter of Mayer de Rothschild), who was regarded as the richest woman in England in the late 19th century. After the death of his elder half-brother

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in 1931, he became heir apparent to his father and was styled Lord Primrose, as the courtesy title Lord Dalmeny was reserved out of respect for his late elder brother. During

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he was educated at

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before being evacuated to America, attending the Millbrook School in Millbrook, N.Y. (A slightly older student who attended at the same time, writer William F. Buckley Jr., would remark in a magazine article in 1981 that the young lord had been an uncontrollable "brat".) Afterward, he was educated at

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and

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. He married Alison Mary Deirdre Reid in 1955. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Midlothian in 1960 and succeeded his father as earl in 1974. Rosebery currently resides at the family seat

Dalmeny House Dalmeny House (pronounced ) is a Gothic revival mansion located in an estate close to Dalmeny on the Firth of Forth, to the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was designed by William Wilkins, and completed in 1817. Dalmeny House is the hom ...

near

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with his wife. The Earl and Countess of Rosebery have five children, four daughters and a son. The Countess is a patroness of the

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. Their son and youngest child,

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, bears the

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Lord Dalmeny as heir to the Rosebery earldoms, viscountcies and baronies.

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The Peerage
1929 births Living people People educated at Sandroyd School Earls of Rosebery Scottish people of German-Jewish descent Midlothian, Neil Primrose, 3rd Earl of

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Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999 {{Scotland-earl-stub