Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery
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Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery was the daughter of Baron Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana. After inheriting her father's fortune in 1874, she became the richest woman in Britain. In 1878, Hannah de Rothschild married Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, and was thereafter known as the Countess of Rosebery.
Hannah de Rothschild and her mother in the Grand Hall at Mentmore
At 23, Hannah de Rothschild inherited Mentmore, built by her father in the 1850s.
Hannah de Rothschild as a young woman at Mentmore
Hannah de Rothschild aged 20, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of his father, in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Rosebery, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny.
Rosebery in 1909
Rosebery caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1901
Durdans, Woodcote End, Epsom, Surrey, England was the place of Rosebery's demise in 1929, shown in 2011. Its gardens are smaller than when engraved by John Hassell in 1816.
Dalmeny House was the ancestral seat of the Earls of Rosebery and the setting for Lord and Lady Rosebery's political houseparties.