Neil Primrose (politician)

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Hon. Frederick Guest
Personal details
Born14 December 1882 (1882-12-14)
First World War
  • Sinai and Palestine Campaign

Neil James Archibald Primrose

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1915 and as joint-Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1916 to 1917. He died from wounds received in action in Palestine
in 1917.

Background

Primrose was born at

Lady Sybil Grant
.

He was educated at

Oxford and played No.1 for the Oxford Polo team in 1904 and 1905.[1] While at Oxford he was also a keen steeplechase rider.[2]

Political career

Primrose entered the

Privy Council.[6]

Military career

Neil Primrose from the Roll of Honour published in The Illustrated London News on 24 November 1917.

Primrose was commissioned into the

Sinai and Palestine Campaign while leading his squadron of the 1/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry against Turkish positions on the Abu Shusheh ridge during the Third Battle of Gaza
.

Commemoration

When news of the death of Primrose reached the UK,

Frederick Stanley Maude:

May I be permitted before I sit down to utter one word of another who held an inconspicuous position in the Army but who was well known to all Members of this House. I refer to Captain Neil Primrose. The House knew his bright and radiant spirit well. To his intimates he was one of the most lovable men we ever met. He had ability far above the average, and, in spite of the reserve and shyness which held him back, his future was full of hope. He had already rendered distinguished service in the field, and for that service he had been recognised at the suggestion of his commanding officer; and he might well, for he had many offers, have occupied positions where he could have rendered services to the public, positions honourable to him, but positions of personal safety, and the fact that he had been chosen by his constituents to serve in this House would have rendered his acceptance of these positions honourable to himself. He chose deliberately the path of danger. He fell charging at the head of his troops, at the very moment of victory, and Members of the House will, I feel certain, join me in an expression of deepest sympathy with those whom he has left behind to mourn him.

— David Lloyd George, House of Commons parliamentary debate, 19 November 1917[9]
Headstone on Capt. Primrose's grave, Ramleh War Cemetery

Responding to the Prime Minister, the former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith (who had himself lost a son in 1916) referred to "two very great national losses" and also paid his respects:

In regard to the other loss to which my right hon. Friend has referred, and which more particularly affects this House, a more familiar and well-loved face has passed from among us, and I only trust myself to say this, that there are few who can realise better than myself how much of hope and of promise there was for his future, and I am sure that his distinguished father and family will have the heartfelt sympathy of every Member of this House.

— H. H. Asquith, House of Commons parliamentary debate, 19 November 1917[10]

Primrose is buried in the

Postwick, Norfolk.[19][T 2]

Family

Primrose married Lady Victoria Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, on 7 April 1915.[20] They had one daughter: Ruth Alice Hannah Mary Primrose (18 April 1916 – 1989), who married Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, on 25 April 1936.

Lady Victoria married as her second husband

Malcolm Bullock, and had one daughter, Priscilla
, by him. Lady Victoria died in a hunting accident in November 1927.

Notes and references

Transcriptions

  1. ^
    DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD BY EDWARD EARL OF DERBY
    AND ALICE HIS WIFE TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR SON-IN-LAW
    NEIL PRIMROSE KILLED IN ACTION 15TH NOVEMBER 1917.
  2. ^
    TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF
    CAPTAIN THE HON NEIL PRIMROSE MC MP
    WHO SO TRULY LOVED THIS PLACE OF WHICH HE WAS
    THE BENIFICENT SQUIRE FOR TOO SHORT A TIME, THIS
    TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS SORROWING FATHER.
    BORN 14 DECEMBER 1882, HE WAS KILLED IN BATTLE
    15 NOVEMBER 1917, AT THE HILL OF GEZER IN
    PALESTINE, AND LIES BURIED AT RAMLEH.
  3. ^
    In memory of
    CAPTAIN THE RIGHT HON.
    NEIL JAMES ARCHIBALD
    PRIMROSE M.P. M.C.
    who was born at Dalmeny
    December 14th 1882
    was killed in action
    November 15, 1917
    at the Hill of Gezer
    in Palestine and lies buried
    at Ramleh.
    This tablet is erected by
    his proud and afflicted father.

    His life was lovely and
    pleasant & he died in Glory.

    They go from strength to
    strength every one of them
    in Zion appeareth before God.
  4. ^
    To the beloved memory of
    NEIL PRIMROSE
    a worshipper here with
    his father who has
    raised this tablet.
    He was born at Dalmeny
    December 14th 1892
    was killed in action
    November 15th 1917
    on the Hill of Gezer
    in Palestine and lies
    buried at Ramleh.

    He was the light of our eyes
    & the joy of all who knew him.

    The LORD gave and the LORD
    hath taken away.
    Blessed be the name of the LORD.
  5. ^
    To the beloved memory of
    CAPTAIN THE RIGHT HON.
    NEIL JAMES
    ARCHIBALD PRIMROSE
    M.P. for Wisbech and M.C.
    born at Dalmeny Dec 14 1882
    and killed Nov 15 1917
    while leading a charge
    of the Royal Bucks Hussars
    at the hill of Gezer
    near which at Ramleh
    he lies buried.
    This tablet is erected by his
    proud and sorrowful father.

    Now he is dead
    Far hence he lies
    In the lorn Syrian town
    And on his grave
    With shining eyes
    The Syrian stars look down.

References

  1. ^ "Oxford Polo Club Archive". Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Polo Monthly" (PDF). 1917: 246. Retrieved 10 August 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "No. 28338". The London Gazette. 11 February 1910. p. 1029.
  4. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)
  5. ^ "Delegates from England and British Colonies Officially Welcomed by Gaynor". The New York Times. 6 May 1913. Retrieved 3 August 2010. The delegates from Great Britain and the British Colonies, who have come to the United States to arrange with the American committee for the celebration in 1913 of 100 years of peace among English-Speaking peoples, were formally welcomed to New York by Mayor Gaynor yesterday morning.
  6. ^ "No. 30131". The London Gazette. 15 June 1917. p. 5867.
  7. ^ "No. 28233". The London Gazette. 16 March 1909. p. 2039.
  8. ^ "No. 29608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1916. p. 5570.
  9. ^ David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (19 November 1917). "DEATH OF SIR STANLEY MAUDE AND MR. NEIL PRIMROSE". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons: House of Commons. col. 865–867.
  10. ^ H. H. Asquith (19 November 1917). "DEATH OF SIR STANLEY MAUDE AND MR. NEIL PRIMROSE". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons: House of Commons. col. 865–867.
  11. ^ a b "Casualty Details: Primrose, The Rt. Hon. Neil James Archibald". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  12. Vladimir Jabotinsky's "The Story of the Jewish Legion", Primrose came very close to joining the Jewish Legion
    but did not because of a miscommunication.
  13. ^ "Recording Angel memorial Panel 8". Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall. UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk). Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  14. ^ "List of names on the Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall" (PDF). Recording Angel memorial, Westminster Hall. UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk). Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  15. ^ "Primrose". Heraldic shields to MPs, First World War. UK Parliament (www.parliament.uk). Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  16. ^ "House of Commons War Memorial: Final Volumes Unveiled by The Speaker". The Times. No. 46050. London. 6 February 1932. p. 7.
  17. ^ Moss-Blundell, Edward Whitaker, ed. (1931). The House of Commons Book of Remembrance 1914–1918. E. Mathews & Marrot.
  18. Imperial War Museums
    . Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  19. Imperial War Museums
    . Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  20. ^ "Primrose-Stanley wedding". British Pathe News.

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Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

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