Education
Primrose was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, gaining his Master of Arts in 1804.
Primrose was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, gaining his Master of Arts in 1804.
He succeeded to the earldom in 1814, and was created Baron Rosebery, of Rosebery in the County of Edinburgh, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1828. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1831 and a Knight of the Thistle in 1840. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Lord Rosbery married firstly Harriett Bouverie in 1808.
They had four children:
Archibald John Primrose, Lord Dalmeny (1809–1851)
Lady Harriet Primrose (born 1810)
Lady Mary Anne Primrose (1812–1826)
Honorary Bouverie Francis Primrose (1813–1898)
Lord and Lady Rosebery were divorced in 1815.
They had two children:
Lady Anne Primrose (22 August 1820-1817 September 1862). Lady Louisa Primrose1 (4 May 1822-1823 March 1870).
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He was Member of Parliament for Helston from 1805 to 1806 and Cashel from 1806 to 1807.