The 1895 United Kingdom general election was held from 13 July to 7 August 1895. The Conservative Party, in alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party, won a parliamentary majority of 153.
Robert Gascoyne Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
The 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
1895 United Kingdom general election
…as prime minister in the previous year, and Queen Victoria, disregarding Gladstone's advice to name Lord Spencer as his successor, had appointed the Earl of Rosebery as the new prime minister. Rosebery's government found itself largely in a state of paralysis due to a power struggle between him and William Harcourt…
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, portrait by John Everett Millais, 1886.
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.