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Oct 9, 1995 · Last Edited=22 Apr 2011. Consanguinity Index=0.42%. ' Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel was born on 2 July 1903.3 He was the son of Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home and Lady Lillian Lambton.3 He married Elizabeth Hester Alington, daughter of Very Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington and Hon. Hester ...
Alec Douglas-Home replaced Harold Macmillan as the Prime Minister in 1963. The period of his premiership was from 19 October 1963 to 16 October 1964. Douglas-Home was an aristocrat by birth, an Etonian and the Fourteenth Earl of Home. He renounced the title of 'Lord' to stand for election in Parliament. As Foreign Secretary, he backed Prime ...
Dec 25, 2013 · Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the late Prime Minister, was a personal friend of the Queen and was bed ridden in the 1940s after a back operation. By Hayley Dixon 25 December 2013 • 8:05pm .
Jan 1, 2019 · Alec Douglas-Home was British Conservative prime minister from 1963 until 1964. He renounced his peerage in order to hold the post, succeeding Harold Macmillan as leader of a divided and scandal-hit administration. With a general election due, he had little opportunity to make a significant impact during his tenure, though defeat to Harold ...
Sy Scholfield quotes from the biography Sir Alec Douglas-Home by Emrys Hughes (London: Housman's, 1964), p. 14: "JULY 2nd, 1903, was a day of rejoicing at the Earl of Home's London house, 28 South Street, Mayfair, just off Park Lane. Just after seven o'clock in the morning the butler wakened the thirteenth earl to convey to him the glad tidings ...
Home was born in July 2, 1903 in 28 South Street in Mayfair, London. His father was Charles Douglas-Home who was known as Lord Dunglass. As a man of privilege, Home would get money from his family to enroll in private schools at Ludgrove and into colleges such as Eton College and Christ Church in Oxford.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home July 2, 1903 - October 9, 1995 Alternative names. Lord Dunglass 1918 - 1951; Earl of Home 1951 - 1963; Constituencies.
