Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Lord Temporal | |
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Hereditary peerage 7 May 1868 – 21 May 1929 | |
Preceded by | The 4th Earl of Rosebery |
Succeeded by | The 6th Earl of Rosebery |
Personal details | |
Born | Archibald Philip Primrose 7 May 1847 Mayfair, Middlesex, England |
Died | 21 May 1929 Epsom, Surrey, England | (aged 82)
Resting place | Dalmeny Parish Church, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse |
Hannah de Rothschild (m. 1878; died 1890) |
Children | Sybil, Peggy, Harry, and Neil |
Parent(s) | Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
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Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian,
Rosebery first came to national attention in 1879 by sponsoring the successful Midlothian campaign of William Ewart Gladstone. He briefly was in charge of Scottish affairs. His most successful performance in office came as chairman of the London County Council in 1889. He entered the cabinet in 1885 and served twice as foreign minister, paying special attention to French and German affairs. He succeeded Gladstone as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party in 1894; the Liberals lost the 1895 election. He resigned the party leadership in 1896 and never again held political office.
Rosebery was widely known as a brilliant orator, an outstanding sportsman and marksman, a writer and historian, connoisseur and collector. All of these activities attracted him more than politics, which grew boring and unattractive. Furthermore, he drifted to the right of the Liberal party and became a bitter critic of its policies. Winston Churchill, observing that he never adapted to democratic electoral competition, quipped: "He would not stoop; he did not conquer."[1]
Rosebery was a
Origins and early life
Archibald Philip Primrose was born on 7 May 1847 in his parents' house in
Rosebery's mother was Lady
Education and youth
Dalmeny attended preparatory schools in
The three Prime Ministers from 1880 to 1902, namely
Succession to earldom
When his grandfather died in 1868, Dalmeny became 5th
Rosebery inherited his title from his grandfather in 1868, aged 21, together with an income of £30,000 a year. He owned 40,000 acres (160 km2) in Scotland, and land in Norfolk, Hertfordshire, and Kent.[15]
Career
Rosebery is reputed to have said that he had three aims in life: to win the Derby, to marry an heiress, and to become Prime Minister.[16] He managed all three.
Early political career
At Eton, Rosebery notably attacked Charles I of England for his despotism, and went on to praise his Whig forebears – his ancestor, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, was a minister to George I of Great Britain. Benjamin Disraeli often met with Rosebery in the 1870s to try to recruit him for his party, but this proved futile. Disraeli's major rival, William Ewart Gladstone, also pursued Rosebery, with considerable success.
As part of the Liberal plan to get Gladstone to be MP for
Rosebery served as Foreign Secretary in Gladstone's brief third ministry in 1886. He served as the first chairman of the London County Council, set up by the Conservatives in 1889. Rosebery Avenue in Clerkenwell is named after him.
In 1892 he was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Garter. Rosebery's second period as Foreign Secretary, 1892–1894, predominantly involved quarrels with France over Uganda. To quote his hero Napoleon, Rosebery thought that "the Master of Egypt is the Master of India"; thus he pursued the policy of expansion in Africa. He helped Gladstone's Second Home Rule Bill in the House of Lords; nevertheless it was defeated overwhelmingly in the autumn of 1893.[22] The first bill had been defeated in the House of Commons in 1886.[23]
Prime Minister
Rosebery became a leader of the Liberal Imperialist faction of the Liberal Party and when Gladstone retired, in 1894, Rosebery succeeded him as Prime Minister, much to the disgust of Sir
Rosebery's government was largely unsuccessful, as in the
His designs in foreign policy, such as an expansion of the fleet, were defeated by disagreements within the Liberal Party. He angered all the European powers.[27]
The Unionist-dominated House of Lords stopped the whole of the Liberals' domestic legislation. The strongest figure in the cabinet was Rosebery's rival, Harcourt. He and his son
On 21 June 1895, the government
Lord Rosebery's government, March 1894 – June 1895
- Lord Rosebery – First Lord of the Treasury, Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Lords
- Lord Herschell – Lord Chancellor
- Lord Tweedmouth – Lord Privy Seal
- Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- Lord Ripon – Secretary of State for the Colonies
- Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman – Secretary of State for War
- Sir Henry Hartley Fowler – Secretary of State for India
- Sir William Harcourt – Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons
- Lord Spencer – First Lord of the Admiralty
- Anthony John Mundella – President of the Board of Trade
- Postmaster-General
- George John Shaw-Lefevre – President of the Local Government Board
- James Bryce – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- John Morley – Chief Secretary for Ireland
- Sir Secretary for Scotland
- Sir Vice-President of the Council
Changes
- May 1894: James Bryce succeeds A. J. Mundella at the Board of Trade. Lord Tweedmouth succeeds Bryce at the Duchy of Lancaster, remaining also Lord Privy Seal.[citation needed]
Later life
Liberal Imperialists
Rosebery resigned as leader of the Liberal Party on 6 October 1896, to be succeeded by William Harcourt and gradually moved further and further from the mainstream of the party. With the Liberals in opposition divided over the
Rosebery's acolytes, including
He was Honorary Colonel of the 1st Midlothian Artillery Volunteers from January 1903 until his death in 1929.[36]
1905 onwards
Rosebery's positions made it impossible to join the Liberal government that returned to power in 1905. Rosebery turned to writing, including biographies of
The last years of his political life saw Rosebery become a purely negative critic of the Liberal governments of
After assaulting the "ill-judged, revolutionary and partisan" terms of the
Personal life
Marriage
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On 20 March 1878, 31-year-old Rosebery married 27-year-old
The marriage was a happy one. In January 1878, Rosebery had told a friend that he found Hannah "very simple, very unspoilt, very clever, very warm-hearted and very shy ... I never knew such a beautiful character." Hannah's death in 1890 from
More than a decade after his wife's death, in July 1901, it was speculated that Rosebery intended to marry the widowed
Progeny
By his wife Hannah de Rothschild, Rosebery had two sons and two daughters, with whom, according to Margot Asquith, he loved to play:
- Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare) on 24 June 1924. They had two children.
- Neil James Archibald Primrose (14 December 1882 – 18 November 1917) he married Lady Victoria Stanley (daughter Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby) on 7 April 1915. They had one daughter: Ruth Wood, Countess of Halifax.
- Lady Sybil Primrose (1879–25 February 1955) she married General Sir Charles Granton 28 March 1903. They had one son.
- Lady Margaret "Peggy" Etrenne Hannah Primrose[41] (1 January 1881 – 13 March 1967) she married Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe on 20 April 1899. They had a son, who died in childhood, and a daughter: Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe. As Lady Crewe, she became one of the first seven women appointed as magistrates in 1919 following the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919.[42]
Sexuality
Throughout his life, it was rumoured that Rosebery was
As a student at Eton, beyond his close relationship with his tutor, William Johnson Cory, he likely had feelings for at least one fellow student, Frederick Vyner. He was devastated by his murder at the hands of Greek brigands in 1870, keeping the anniversary sacred for the rest of his life.[44]
Like Oscar Wilde, he was hounded by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry for his association with Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, Queensberry's first born son[45] – who had become his private secretary in 1892 when Rosebery became Foreign Secretary. A few months later he arranged for Drumlanrig, who was 26 at the time, to be made a junior member of the government with a seat in the House of Lords.[46]
During the preliminary hearing of the case against Wilde, a letter from Queensberry was produced referring to him as 'a damned cur and coward of the Rosebery type'.[47]
On 18 October 1894, sixteen months after his ennoblement, Drumlanrig died from injuries received during a shooting party. The inquest returned a verdict of "accidental death", but his death was rumoured potentially to be suicide or murder.[48] It was speculated at the time[49] that Drumlanrig may have had a romantic, if not sexual, relationship with Rosebery.
The suggestion was that Queensberry had threatened to expose the Prime Minister if his government did not vigorously prosecute Wilde for Wilde's relationship with Drumlanrig's younger brother, Lord Alfred Douglas. Queensberry believed, as he put it in a letter, that "Snob Queers like Rosebery" had corrupted his sons, and he held Rosebery indirectly responsible for Drumlanrig's death.[50] He claimed to have evidence of Rosebery's transgressions but that was never confirmed.[51]
Using a minor defeat in Parliament that did not warrant such action, Rosebery resigned from the Premiership on 22 June 1895. This was a few months after the death of Drumlanrig and not quite a month after Wilde was convicted on 25 May, his life and reputation destroyed by a man who was also pursuing Rosebery for the same reason he was after Wilde. In August 1893, Queensberry had followed Rosebery to the spa town of Bad Homburg with the declared intention of giving him a horse-whipping, and had to be dissuaded by the Prince of Wales who was also staying there.[46]
In his recollections, Rosebery wrote: "I cannot forget 1895. To lie awake night after night, wide awake, hopeless of sleep, tormented of nerves, and to realise all that was going on, at which I was present, so to speak, like a disembodied spirit, to watch one's own corpse, as it were day after day, is an experience which no sane man would repeat."[47]
Robert Rhodes James, who wrote a biography of Rosebery in 1963 (when homosexuality was still illegal in Britain), makes no mention of homosexual relationships at all, while for Leo McKinstry, who was writing in 2005, the evidence that Rosebery was homosexual is circumstantial. Michael Bloch, in 2015, has, however, no doubt that Rosebery was at least romantically interested in men, making him one of the four figures presented in the first chapter of his book on homosexual and bisexual British politicians of the 20th century. In his view, any remaining evidence (of which he gives a long list) can only be circumstantial in any case, considering Rosebery's paranoid taste for secrecy.[53]
Death and burial
The last year of the war was clouded by two personal tragedies: his son
Rosebery died at his
Sporting interests
Horse racing
As a result of his marriage to Hannah de Rothschild, Rosebery acquired the
Rosebery won several of the five
Football
Rosebery became the first president of the London Scottish Rugby Football Club in 1878, also developed a keen interest in association football and was an early patron of the sport in Scotland. In 1882 he donated a trophy, the Rosebery Charity Cup, to be competed for by clubs under the jurisdiction of the East of Scotland Football Association. The competition lasted over sixty years and raised thousands of pounds for charities in the Edinburgh area.
Rosebery also became Honorary President of the national
Literary interests
He was a keen collector of fine books and amassed an excellent library. It was sold on 29 October 2009 at Sothebys, New Bond Street. Rosebery unveiled the statue of Robert Burns in Dumfries on 6 April 1882.[57]
Landholdings
Rosebery was the owner of twelve houses. By marriage, he acquired:
- Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, a huge neo-Renaissance stately home, sold in the 1970s
- Number 40, Piccadilly, in London.
With his fortune, he bought:
- Malleny House and Garden in 1882[58]
- a shooting lodge at Carrington in Midlothian
- a Georgian villa at Postwick in Norfolk
- In 1897, he bought Villa Delahente in Bay of Naples, currently an official residence of the President of the Italian Republic, still known as Villa Rosebery
- 38 Berkeley Square, London
- The Durdans, Epsom, where he died in 1929.
As Earl of Rosebery, he was laird of:
- Dalmeny House on the banks of the Firth of Forth (pictured)
- Barnbougle Castle in the grounds of Dalmeny Estate, used by Rosebery (an insomniac) for privacy.
He rented:
- a home in Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, during World War I
- Lansdowne House, in London, from the Marquess of Lansdowne.
Legacy and evaluations
Rosebery's position in British politics was puzzling to contemporaries and historians due to the enigmatic nature of his private and public lives. He had an air of privileged detachment, which persisted throughout his brief stint in the political limelight and his significant years in the background. Although he was an orator and statesman in the mold of his original leader, Gladstone, his fifteen-month term as Liberal Prime Minister in 1894-5 was an unhappy spectacle. Lord Rosebery's failure to live up to his potential disappointed Liberals of all kinds. Journalists and biographers have criticized his lack of character and sense of failure, possibly influenced by his Scottish
Place-name tributes
The Oatlands area in the South Side of Glasgow was laid out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contemporary with Rosebery's most prominent period. The area is much changed since it was originally laid out, but several of the original street names had an association with him or areas around his estate to the northwest of Edinburgh: Rosebery Street, Dalmeny Street, Queensferry Street, Granton Street and Cramond Street.[60]
In London, Rosebery Avenue, running between Holborn and Clerkenwell, was named after him, in recognition of his service as the London County Council's first chairman.[61]
Rosebery, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, is named after him. A major street, Dalmeny Avenue, runs through the area. Rosebery, Tasmania is also named after him, via the name of a mining company. Dalmeny, New South Wales, a suburb on the New South Wales South Coast, is named after him. Roseberry Avenue in the suburb of South Perth, Western Australia, is also named after him. The former township of Rosebery in South Australia (now part of Collinswood) was named for him, as was modern-day Rosebery Lane in Collinswood.[62] Rosebery in the north west of Victoria, some 15 km south of Hopetoun is also named after him.
Rosebery House, Epsom College, in Epsom, is named after him.
In October 1895 Lord Rosebery opened the new Liberal Club on Westborough, in
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ROSEBERY Avenue, off High Ridge Road, is named after Archibald Philip Primrose, 5"1 Earl of Rosebery who (...)
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Bibliography
- ISBN 1408704129Chapter 1: Archie, Regie, Loulou and Bill
- Hamer, D. A. Liberal politics in the age of Gladstone and Rosebery: a study in leadership and policy (Clarendon Press, 1972).
- Jacobson, Peter D. “Rosebery and Liberal Imperialism, 1899 - 1903.” Journal of British Studies 13.1 1973, pp. 83–107. online
- Leonard, Dick. Nineteenth-Century British Premiers: Pitt to Rosebery (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
- ISBN 0-7195-5879-4. online
- Martel, Gordon. Imperial Diplomacy: Rosebery and the failure of foreign policy (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986) online
- Raymond, E. T. The Life of Lord Rosebery (1923) online
- Raymond, John. "The First Phase" History Today (Feb 1959) 9#2 pp 75–82; covers 1847 to 1880.
- Raymond, John. "Office and Eclipse" History Today (Mar 1959) 9#3 pp 176–184. on Rosebery 1880 to 1895.
- Rhodes James, R. Rosebery (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963), a major scholarly biography. online
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Rosebery
- Earl Of Rosebery 1847–1929 biography from the Liberal Democrat History Group
- More about The Earl of Roseberry on the Downing street website.
- Chisholm, Hugh (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.).
- "Archival material relating to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery". UK National Archives.
- Works by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Portraits of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery at the National Portrait Gallery, London