Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery
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Sir Archibald John Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery KT
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, PC
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, FRS (14 October 1783 – 4 March 1868) was a British
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 Member of Parliament
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.

Archibald Primrose was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge
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, gaining his MA
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 in 1804. He was Member of Parliament for Helston
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 from 1805 to 1806 and Cashel
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 from 1806 to 1807.

He succeeded to the Earldom in 1814, and was created Baron Rosebery (in the Peerage of Great Britain
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) in 1828. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor
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 in 1831 and a Knight of the Thistle
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 in 1840. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He was married twice; first in 1808 to Harriett Bouverie (divorced in 1815) and then in 1819 to Anne Margaret Anson. His children included:
  • with Harriett Bouverie:
Archibald John Primrose, Lord Dalmeny
Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny
Archibald Ronald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny was an English-born Scottish cricketer.Primrose was born in London and was styled Lord Dalmeny as the heir apparent of his father Lord Rosebery, but he predeceased him in 1931. Like his father, he represented Middlesex...

 (1809–1851)
Lady Harriet Primrose (born 1810)
Lady Mary Anne Primrose (1812–1826)
Hon. Bouverie Francis Primrose (1813–1898)

  • with Anne Anson
Lady Anne Primrose (died 1862)
Lady Louisa Primrose1 (1822–1870)

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