Philip Primrose

Philip Primrose

Philip Carteret Hill Primrose (October 23, 1864, Halifax, N.S. – March 17, 1937, Edmonton, Alta.) was a Canadian police officer and Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.

P.C.H. Primrose was the son of Alexander Primrose, a Halifax barrister, and Elizabeth Daly. He was related to the Earls of Rosebery, including his namesake the 5th Earl (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1894-1895). A graduate of Canada's Royal Military College, he was appointed an Inspector of the paramilitary North-West Mounted Police in 1885. He served in the future province of Alberta with the Mounties when they were still the sole law in the region and a crucial bulwark against the threats of encroaching American commerce and aboriginal uprising. Promoted to Superintendent in 1899, Primrose was sent to the Yukon Territory and was a central figure in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Primrose resigned from the RNWMP in 1915 and spent 20 years as an Edmonton police magistrate, a role requiring him to preside over speedy trials of petty crimes. He was also a member of the board that oversaw and organized the creation of the Alberta Provincial Police, and in the First World War he commanded the Canadian Army's Edmonton Reserve Battalion.

A Liberal by family heritage and disposition, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta effective October 1, 1936 on the advice of Prime Minister Mackenzie King. He was the first Alberta Lieutenant Governor to die while still viceroy, and received the province's first state funeral.

External links

* [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/lt-gov/primrose.htm Official biography]
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=3653245 Biographical notice in "Nova Scotians at Home and Abroad"]


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