ROSEBERY

(ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE), 5TH EARL OF, and EARL OF MIDLOTHIA N (1 847), under-secretary, Home Office (1881-3); first commi ioner of works (1885); foreign secretary (1886, 1892-4); prime minister (1894-5, succeeding Gladstone); resigned owing to party di ensions; also resigned leadership of Liberal party (1896); became president of Liberal gue (1902), an organization of moderate members of the party; made occasional returns thereafter to political arena, as independent critic of both parties. A devotee of local government, Lord Rosebery was first chairman of London County Council (1889); Lord-Lieutenant of Linlithgow (since 1873), of Mid loth i an (since 1884). Keenly interested in univ. work, he was elected rector of Aberdeen Univ. (1878), Edinburgh Univ. (1880), Glasgow Univ. (1899), St. Andrews Univ. (1911); chancellor of London Univ. An ardent sportsman, he won the Derby (1894, 1895, 1905). He succeeded his grandf. as Earl of Rosebery (1868); cr. Earl of Mid loth i an (U.K.) (1911). ong other literary works he has written Napoleon, the Last Phase, 1900; and monographs on Pitt, Peel, Cromwell, (1819-1898), Amer, soldier and engineer, 6. in Kingston, Ohio, d. near Redondo, California [Graduated from West Point, lieutenant of engineers; a istant profe or of engineering West Point; engaged in repairing eastern harbors 18471854. In the Civil War he was colonel of the 23rd Ohio Volunteers; brigadier-general U.S. volunteers 1861; and June 23 commanded 3 brigades under McClellan in the West Virginia campaigns, and succeeded Pope in command of the Army of Mi i ippi. After his succe ful defense in the siege of Carthage in 1862 he was given command of the Western Tenne ee District. He commanded the Army of the Cumber land October 1862, driving Bragg over the Cumber land Mountains to Chattanooga, Transferred to the Department of Mi ouri in 1863 he was relieved of command 1864. Appointed U.S. minister to Mexico 1868; in Congre from California 1881-1885; register U.S. Treasury 18861893; restored to rank of brigadier general, and placed on retired list 1898.