Primrose, Archibald Philip, fifth earl of Rosebery and first earl of Midlothian (1847–1929), prime minister and author

by John Davis

  • Education
  • Peerage and early political life
  • Foreign secretary
  • Gladstonian Liberal
  • The London county council and the Newcastle programme
  • Marriage and bereavement
  • Return to the Foreign Office: imperial problems
  • The alliance system
  • Prime minister, 1894–1895
  • Breakdown and scandal
  • Liberal Imperialist
  • Free-trader
  • Last years
  • Author and historical biographer
  • Assessment

References

See also

Themes

  • National Trust
  • Cosmopolitan Club
  • Marlborough House set
  • Leaders of the Liberal, Social Democratic, and (Social and) Liberal Democrat parties
  • Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Churchill Archive
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives
  • Who Was Who

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