LORD ROSEBERY.
Born 1847.
AGE 17.
From a Photo by Hills and Saunders.
AGE 21.
From a Photo by Hills & Saunders, Eton.
AGE 38.
From a Photo by Russell & Sons, Baker Street.
PRESENT DAY.
From a Photo by Elliott & Fry.
The right Hon. Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, LL.D., P.C., was born in London, and received his education at Eton, our first portrait showing him at that time. He was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in August, 1881. He resigned the Under-Secretaryship in 1883 and became First Commissioner of Works. In 1886 he was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and succeeded Mr. Gladstone as Prime Minister in March of this year.