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(Albert Edward) Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery KT DSO MC PC (8 January 1882 – 31 May 1974), styled Lord Dalmeny until 1929, was a British politician who briefly served as Secretary of State for Scotland in 1945.
His parents were Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (from 1894-95) and Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, a member of the Rothschild family. He was the brother of Neil Primrose and the writer Lady Sybil Grant. He attended Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Lord Dalmeny was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as a Second lieutenant 12 February 1902.
During the First World War, he served in France from 1914–17 as Camp Commandant and ADC to General Allenby and subsequently in Palestine as Allenby's Military Secretary. His brother Neil Primrose was killed in Palestine in 1917.