Helidon Spa Water Company

Gilbert Edward Primrose (27 February 1848 – 16 February 1935) was a Scottish amateur sportsman who made one appearance for the Scottish football XI against England in the representative match played in February 1871. He later settled in Helidon, near Brisbane in Queensland, Australia where he became a director of the Helidon Spa Water Company. In 1959, the company merged with Owen Gardener & Sons to become Kirks.

Primrose was born at Dalmeny, near Edinburgh, the third of the six sons of the Hon. Bouverie Francis Primrose (1813–1898) and his wife, Frederica Sophia Anson (1814–1867). His father was the son of Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery and Harriett Bouverie. His mother was the daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson and Lady Anne Margaret Coke.

His brothers included Francis Archibald, (born 1843),Henry William (1846–1923), who became chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and George Anson Primrose (1849–1930), who became a vice-admiral.

Primrose was baptised at St. John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh and educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond between 1858 and 1865, where he played in the school's cricket XI.

On 13 May 1893, in Brisbane, Queensland, he married Jessie Catherine Costelloe, daughter of Lieutenant Costelloe of Lackeen Castle, Birr, Ireland.

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