The minutes of the Town Improvement Committee of Belfast Corporation on 25 April 1894 indicate the naming of 3 streets at My Lady’s Road and Ravenhill Avenue: Rosebery Road, Roslyn Street and London Road. This street was called after Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, who was British Prime Minister in 1894-1895. Although the title Earl of Rosebery is in the Peerage of Scotland, it refers to Roseberry Topping (note the spelling with 2 Rs), a hill in North Yorkshire near the estate of the 1st Earl's wife.