The Earl of RoseberyThe Baron of Barnbougle
(other titles are peerages), Clan chief
The Rt Hon The Earl of Rosebery (Harry Ronald Neil Primrose, 8th and 4th Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian, Viscount of Rosebery, Viscount of Inverkeithing, Viscount Mentmore, Lord Primrose and Dalmeny, Lord Dalmeny and Primrose, Baron Rosebery, Baron Epsom, Baron of Barnbougle - Chief of Clan Primrose)
peer addressed as My Lord or Lord Rosebery
Credentials
- • RMS vii, no. 1175, p. 433 (1 February [1615]) archive.org/…/1up ; RPS, 1662/5/95 (9 September 1662) rps.ac.uk/trans/1662/5/95 ; RPS, 1662/5/59 (26 August 1662) rps.ac.uk/trans/1662/5/59
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