More than 160 mineworkers at the Pasminco Rosebery mine in Tasmania went on strike for 48 hours last Sunday. |
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Rosebery built another stable and stud near Mentmore Towers at Crafton, Buckinghamshire, called Crafton Stud. |
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Rosebery first came to national attention in 1879 by sponsoring the successful Midlothian campaign of William Ewart Gladstone. |
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Rosebery colours were revived as a change kit for the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying matches. |
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Remarkably the three Prime Ministers from 1880 to 1902, namely Gladstone, Salisbury and Rosebery, all attended both Eton and Christ Church. |
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Benjamin Disraeli often met with Rosebery in the 1870s to try to recruit him for his party, but this proved futile. |
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Disraeli's major rival, William Ewart Gladstone, also pursued Rosebery, with considerable success. |
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Rosebery was in the Lords, but Harcourt controlled the Commons, where he often undercut the prime minister. |
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Primroses also appear as a charge in heraldry, for example the coat of arms of the Earl of Rosebery. |
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In 1894, Gladstone retired and, without consulting the outgoing prime minister, Victoria appointed Lord Rosebery as prime minister. |
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When Gladstone retired in March 1894, Queen Victoria chose the Foreign Secretary, Lord Rosebery, as the new prime minister. |
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The last overall Leader of the Opposition to have led it from the House of Lords was the Earl of Rosebery. |
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Rosebery remained the Liberal leader for another year, then permanently retired from politics. |
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The small Scottish electorate was dominated by two noblemen, the Conservative Duke of Buccleuch and the Liberal Earl of Rosebery. |
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Towards the end of the century Prime Ministers of Scottish descent included William Gladstone, and the Earl of Rosebery. |
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Rosebery turned to writing, including biographies of Lord Chatham, Pitt the Younger, Napoleon, and Lord Randolph Churchill. |
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Rosebery resigned as leader of the Liberal Party on 6 October 1896, to be succeeded by Harcourt and gradually moved further and further from the mainstream of the party. |
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The school's weekly newspaper is still entitled The Beaver, Rosebery residence hall's bar is called the Tipsy Beaver and LSE sports teams are known as the Beavers. |
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A former Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery was an influential figure in Scottish football, serving as honorary President of the SFA and Edinburgh team Hearts. |
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He resigned and handed over to foreign secretary, Lord Rosebery. |
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Lord Dalmeny died on 23 January 1851, having predeceased his father, when the courtesy title passed to his son, the future Rosebery, as the new heir to the earldom. |
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When his grandfather died in 1868, Dalmeny became 5th Earl of Rosebery. |
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Rosebery died at The Durdans, Epsom, Surrey, on 21 May 1929, to the accompaniment, as he had requested, of a gramophone recording of the Eton Boating Song. |
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In 1882 he donated a trophy, the Rosebery Charity Cup, to be competed for by clubs under the jurisdiction of the East of Scotland Football Association. |
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Rosebery House, Epsom College, in Epsom, is named after him. |
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In October 1895, Lord Rosebery opened the new Liberal Club on Westborough, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, only months after being Prime Minister. |
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On the day Edward VII was signing the Entente Cordiale with France, Rosebery warned Lloyd George that it would increase the likelihood of a war with Germany. |
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He tried in vain to persuade Rosebery to become Liberal leader again. |
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The immediate consequences included the end of the Liberal League, and Rosebery breaking friendship with the Liberal Party, which in itself was for Lloyd George a triumph. |
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