Background
Harry Primrose was born in 1967.
deputy chairman Deputy Lieutenant
Harry Primrose was born in 1967.
He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford and Eton College. He then studied Art History at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lord Dalmeny is the Deputy Chairman of the British branch of Sotheby"son Lord Dalmeny joined Sotheby’s in 1990 to work in the Country House sale department. In 2000, he became Director of Sotheby’s and from 2003-2007 was Chairman of Sotheby’s Olympia.
He also took on responsibility for the single-owner sales department in 2006 and became Deputy Chairman, Sotheby’s United Kingdom in 2007.
As Sotheby"s director of country house sales in the United Kingdom, Lord Dalmeny has been behind the rostrum and on top of the gavel for some of the most high-profile auctions in Europe, including the Duke of Devonshire"s sale at Chatsworth House and the 2004 record sale at Hopetoun House of Jack Vettriano"s painting The Singing Butler for £744,800. In 2013, Lord Dalmeny rode in the Queen"s carriage at Royal Ascot.
He is Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Midlothian and is a member of the Royal Company of Archers.