Captain Neil James Archibald Primrose, MC (14 December 1882 – 15 November 1917), British Liberal politician and soldier, was the second son of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and Hannah de Rothschild, and brother of the writer Lady Sybil Grant. He was born at Dalmeny.[1]
He entered the House of Commons at the December 1910 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wisbech. On 7 April 1915, he married Lady Victoria Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. The couple had one daughter: Ruth Alice Hannah Mary Primrose (b. 18 April 1916), married on 25 April 1936 Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax.
Primrose was commissioned into the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars in 1909. Promoted Captain in 1915, he was awarded the Military Cross in 1916. Created a Privy Counsellor in 1917, he was killed in November at Gezer during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign while leading his squadron against Turkish positions on the Abu Shusheh ridge during the Third Battle of Gaza. He is buried in the Ramleh Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Ramla, in Israel. {According to 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}.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Cecil Beck |
Member of
Parliament for Wisbech 1910–1917 |
Succeeded by Colin Reith Coote |
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| Preceded by Francis Dyke Acland |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs 1915 |
Succeeded by Lord Robert Cecil |
| Preceded by Lord Edmund Talbot John William Gulland |
Parliamentary Secretary to the
Treasury with Lord Edmund Talbot 1916–1917 |
Succeeded by Lord Edmund Talbot Frederick Guest |
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