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Archibald Primrose, the fifth Earl of Rosebery is reputed to have said as a young man that he had three ambitions in life — to win the Derby, to marry a great heiress and to be Prime Minister (McKinstry, p. 43). He obtained all three objectives, indeed winning the Derby three times, but much of his life can be accounted a long-drawn-out failure, and his achievements during his short premiership were virtually nil, despite his undoubted gifts.
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Leonard, D. (2008). Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery — Seeking ‘the Palm without the Dust’. In: Nineteenth-Century British Premiers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227255_21
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