Son of the third earl, educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge; he succeeded his father in 1814 and sat in Parliament as a Scottish representative peer (Whig) until being created a peer of the United Kingdom in 1828.

REFERENCES TO Archibald John Primrose, fourth earl of Rosebery:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 2 November 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 16 March 1822 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Samuel Rogers to Richard Sharp, 21 November 1834 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 6 March 1839 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)