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Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel,[1] KT, PC (2 July 1903 - 9 October 1995) 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative (actually SUP) politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964. He held a series of records: he was the last member of the House of Lords to be appointed Prime Minister; the only Prime Minister to renounce his peerage to leave the House of Lords and contest a by-election to enter the House of Commons; and the last Prime Minister to be chosen personally by the British monarch. He was also the only Prime Minister to have played first class cricket and the first British Prime Minister to have been born in the 20th century. Sir Alec Douglas Home photo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is, in practice, the political leader of the United Kingdom. ...
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 â 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 â 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...
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Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, OBE (9 July 1916 â 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ...
The Right Honourable Captain Robert Maitland Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, PC (November 6, 1906, Bromley - March 13, 1990) was a British Labour politician who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson. ...
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 â 26 March 2005), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. ...
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 â 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...
John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd (28 July 1904 - 18 May 1978), known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative politician. ...
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 â 8 March 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. ...
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Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC (9 October 1907 â 12 October 2001), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham (1950â1963), was a British judge and Conservative politician. ...
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC (9 October 1907 â 12 October 2001), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham (1950â1963), was a British judge and Conservative politician. ...
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The Right Honourable Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG (August 27, 1893âFebruary 23, 1972) was a grandson of the great 3rd Marquess. ...
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC (9 October 1907 â 12 October 2001), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham (1950â1963), was a British judge and Conservative politician. ...
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 â 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...
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Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC (9 October 1907 â 12 October 2001), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham (1950â1963), was a British judge and Conservative politician. ...
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Elizabeth Hester Alington, Baroness Home of the Hirsel and formerly Countess of Home (1909-1990) was the wife of the British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. ...
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Early life
Douglas-Home was born in Mayfair, London, England, the eldest of seven children born to Charles, Lord Dunglass, (the eldest son of the 12th Earl of Home) and Lady Lilian Lambton, daughter of Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham. His mother was the great-great-granddaughter of the reforming Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. After his father's succession to the Earldom in 1918 he held the courtesy title Lord Dunglass. One of his brothers was the dramatist William Douglas-Home. Mayfair is an area in the City of Westminster London, named after the fortnight-long May Fair that took place there from 1686 until it was banned in that location in 1764. ...
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Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home (December 29, 1873âJuly 11, 1951) was the father of British Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home. ...
The Right Honourable Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home KT (April 11, 1834âApril 30, 1918) was a Scottish peer . ...
Frederick William Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham (June 19, 1855âJanuary 31, 1929) was a British peer and the son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham He married Beatrix Bulteel (c. ...
The Right Honourable Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764â17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. ...
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The Honourable William Douglas-Home (June 3, 1912- September 28, 1992) was a British writer and dramatist. ...
Home was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. At Eton, his classmates included Cyril Connolly, who later described him as "a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part". Connolly famously concluded, "in the eighteenth century he would have become Prime Minister before he was 30: as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life".[2] Other classmates included George Orwell. In 1936 he married Elizabeth Alington, the daughter of Cyril Alington, who had been Douglas-Home's headmaster at Eton. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and...
and of the Christ Church College name Christ Church Latin name Ãdes Christi Named after Jesus Christ Established 1546 Sister college Trinity College, Cambridge Dean The Very Revd Christopher Andrew Lewis JCR president Laura Ellis Undergraduates 426 GCR president Tim Benjamin Graduates 154 Location of Christ Church within central Oxford...
Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English intellectual. ...
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 [1] [2] â 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. ...
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Elizabeth Alington ( -1990) was the wife of the British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. ...
The Very Reverend Cyril Argentine Alington, D.D., (1872â1955), was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author. ...
Cricket career Home was a talented cricketer at school, club and county level, and is the only British prime minister to have played first-class cricket. Amongst others he represented the MCC, Middlesex CCC and Oxford University Cricket Club at first-class level, playing under the name "Lord Dunglass", his title at the time. Between 1924 and 1927, Dunglass played 10 first-class matches, scoring 147 runs at an average of 16.33 and with a best score of 37 not out. As a right-arm fast-medium bowler he took 12 wickets at an average of 30.25 with a best of 3 for 43. Three of his first-class games were internationals against Argentina on the MCC 'representative' tour of South America in 1926-27. A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ...
First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ...
Lords 2005 The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, is a private members club and was the original governing body of cricket in England and across the world. ...
Middlesex County Cricket Club is a first-class cricket club in England, named after the historic county of Middlesex in which their home ground, Lords Cricket Ground in London, is located. ...
Oxford University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a first-class cricket team. ...
For the rap album, see 1924 (album). ...
Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
After Douglas-Home had retired as prime minister, he became president of the MCC in 1966. Between 1977 and 1989 he was Governor of I Zingari, the well-known nomadic cricket team. His cricket career served him well later in life when, at a particularly rowdy election hustings, he had an egg thrown at him and was able to catch it without it breaking. I Zingari (from the Italian for the gypsies) is an English amateur cricket club which was formed on 4 July 1845 and thus is one of the oldest cricket clubs still in existence. ...
Member of Parliament Home became the Scottish Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Lanark in 1931. His high birth gave him a head start in Parliament, and he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (1937-9) to Neville Chamberlain, witnessing at first hand the latter's attempts to stave off World War II through negotiation with Adolf Hitler. Douglas-Home fell gravely ill with spinal tuberculosis in 1938, which kept him immobile on his back for two years and prevented him from fighting in World War II. The Unionist Party, referred to as the Scottish Unionist Party outwith Scotland itself, was the main Tory political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Lanark was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1832 and again from 1918 until 1983. ...
Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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This article is about the British prime minister. ...
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Home lost his parliamentary seat in the Conservatives' landslide defeat in the 1945 general election, but regained it in 1950. However he was automatically disqualified from the Commons in 1951 when he inherited his father's seat in the House of Lords, becoming the 14th Earl of Home. Clement Attlee Winston Churchill The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 held on 5 July 1945 but not counted and declared until 26 July 1945 (due to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas) was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th...
Lord Home, as he then was, served not only as Commonwealth Secretary from 1955 during the time of the Suez Crisis but, from 1957, also as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council (the latter twice; briefly in 1957 and subsequently from 1959). Home traded all three for the Foreign Office in 1960. In 1962, he was created a knight of the Order of the Thistle — the highest honour outside the nobility available to a Scot and in the personal gift of the Monarch — which entitled him to be styled "Sir" after later renouncing his earldom. Combatants Israel United Kingdom France Egypt Commanders Moshe Dayan Charles Keightley Pierre Barjot Gamal Abdel Nasser Abdel Hakim Amer Strength 175,000 Israeli 45,000 British 34,000 French 70,000 Casualties 197 Israeli KIA 56 British KIA 91 British WIA 10 French KIA 43 French WIA 650 KIA[1...
Leader of the House of Lords is a function in the British government that is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, most often Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. ...
The Office of Lord President of the Council is a British cabinet position, the holder of which acts as presiding officer of the Privy Council. ...
The position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was created in the United Kingdoms governmental reorganization of 1782, in which the Northern and Southern Departments became the Home and Foreign Offices. ...
James VII ordained the modern Order. ...
Appointment as Prime Minister In 1963, Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan suddenly resigned following prostate trouble from which he (wrongly) thought he would not recover. At the time, the Conservative Party had no formal procedure for selecting a leader, merely a series of confused precedents and the Queen was expected to choose a new Prime Minister on the basis of advice given by the party's elder statesmen. Though Rab Butler, nominally the "Deputy Prime Minister" (officially no such constitutional office then existed, with the title on its rare usages being an honorary one), was the favourite among Conservative MPs, Home was preferred by the elder statesmen, some of whom indicated that they would refuse to serve in cabinet under Butler or the other potential candidate, Quintin Hogg. Macmillan's resignation took place at the time of the 1963 Conservative Party Conference, which rapidly became something akin to an American political convention as various candidates and their supporters jostled publicly for the position. Following a series of consultations to determine who could command support from across the party and prove the best compromise candidate, Macmillan advised Queen Elizabeth II. Though it was argued that he had no right to advise the Queen as to whom to invite to kiss hands as Prime Minister, and the Queen was under no obligation to accept his advice, the Queen duly invited the Earl of Home to become Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury. Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 â 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...
The prostate is a compound tubuloalveolar exocrine gland of the male mammalian reproductive system. ...
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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 â 8 March 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. ...
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC (9 October 1907 â 12 October 2001), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham (1950â1963), was a British judge and Conservative politician. ...
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The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, usually but not always the Prime Minister. ...
Home, the first UK Prime Minister born in the 20th century, believed it would not be practical to serve as PM from the Lords (it was widely believed that Lord Curzon had not been invited to become prime minister in 1923 because of his seat in the Lords). Using the Peerage Act 1963, which had only been passed earlier in the same year after Tony Benn's campaign to renounce his peerage, Home disclaimed his Earldom and other peerages on 23 October 1963. For the next two weeks he belonged to neither House of Parliament - an extremely uncommon (although not unique) occurrence for a sitting Prime Minister. As "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", he contested a by-election in the safe seat of Kinross & West Perthshire. Home duly won on 8 November, entering the history books as the last peer to become Prime Minister and the only Prime Minister to resign the Lords to enter the Commons. George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, British statesman The Most Honourable George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (January 11, 1859 â March 20, 1925), was a conservative British statesman who served as Viceroy of India. ...
The Peerage Act 1963 (1963 c. ...
Anthony Tony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. ...
The Kinross and West Perthshire by-election of 7 November 1963 was a by-election to the House of Commons. ...
Kinross and Western Perthshire was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1974. ...
Defeat and opposition Linked as it was to the damaged former government's Profumo Affair of 1963, Douglas-Home's tenure as prime minister lasted only one year. The October 1964 general election was won by the Labour Party under the new leadership of Harold Wilson. However, the margin of victory proved narrow and the election thus provided a much sterner test for Wilson than expected. Indeed it was in this campaign that Home made his most famous remark. Wilson kept gibing Home that he was not a man of the people, as he was the 14th Earl of Home. Home responded, "as far as the 14th Earl is concerned I suppose that Mr. Wilson, when you come to think of it, is the 14th Mr. Wilson". The Profumo Affair was a political scandal from 1963 in the United Kingdom that is named after the then-Secretary of State for War, John Profumo. ...
The United Kingdom general election of 1964 result was a very slim majority for the Labour Party, of 4, and led to their first government since 1951. ...
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 â 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...
Home remained leader of the party until his resignation in July of the following year. At this time, Home himself revised the rules of the Conservative Party to allow the party leader to be henceforth selected by a series of ballots of all Conservative MPs. The resulting leadership election was won by Edward Heath, who defeated Reginald Maudling and Enoch Powell. Over the following six years, Home was notably loyal to Heath, comparing those who questioned his position with impatient gardeners who would keep digging up a tree to gauge its progress by examining its roots. Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, OBE (9 July 1916 â 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ...
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John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16, 1912 â February 8, 1998) was a British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet. ...
Return to Government In 1970, Heath became prime minister, Home returned to the post of Foreign Secretary which was deemed to suit him well. As of 2007, Home is the last former Prime Minister to take a Ministry in someone else's cabinet. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Retirement In 1973 Home intimated his intention to retire from Parliament and government at the next general election, but was overtaken by the calling of a snap general election in February 1974. Following the defeat of the Heath government by that of Harold Wilson in 1974, Home retired from front-line politics, standing down from the Commons at the October 1974 election. The UK general election of February 1974 was held on February 28, 1974. ...
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 â 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...
Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...
Harold Wilson Edward Heath The United Kingdom general election of October 1974 took place on 10 October 1974. ...
In the 1979 Devolution referendum, Home made a high profile statement arguing that an incoming Conservative Government would introduce a better Scottish Assembly. In the event, Margaret Thatcher's government did not do so. Look up Devolution in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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A devolved Scottish Assembly that would have some form of legislative powers in jurisdiction over Scotland was a long-held political priority for many individuals and organisations. ...
Personal life Home was restored to the House of Lords when he accepted a life peerage, becoming known as Baron Home of the Hirsel, of Coldstream in Berwickshire (The Hirsel being his family seat in Berwickshire), and continued to appear in the House of Lords into his nineties. To date, Home ranks as the third-longest-lived British Prime Minister, behind James Callaghan and Harold Macmillan. His autobiography, The Way The Wind Blows, was published in 1976. He was also the author of Peaceful Change (1964) and Border Reflections (1979). His correspondence with his grandson Matthew Darby was published as Letters to a Grandson in 1983. In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ...
Berwickshire (Siorrachd Bhearaig in Gaelic) is a committee area of the Scottish Borders Council and a Lieutenancy area of Scotland, on the border with England. ...
This is a list of U.K. Prime Ministers by longevity. ...
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 â 26 March 2005), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. ...
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 â 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...
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Death On his death at The Hirsel in 1995, aged 92, Home was succeeded as Earl of Home by his only son, David Douglas-Home. The title Earl of Home (pronounced Hume) was created in 1605 in the Peerage of Scotland for Alexander Home, who was also the sixth Lord Home. ...
David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home CVO CBE (born 20 November 1943) is the 15th Earl of Home and eldest son of former Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Alec Douglas-Home. ...
He also had three daughters, Lady Caroline Douglas-Home DL, Lady Meriel Darby (who married Adrian Darby OBE, of Kemerton Court) and Lady Diana Wolfe Murray. Adrian Marten George Darby, OBE (born 25 September 1937) is a British conservationist and academic. ...
Kemerton Court: baroque west façade Kemerton Court is the principal manor house of the village of Kemerton, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. ...
Titles from birth to death - The Hon. Alec Douglas-Home (1903 – 1918)
- Lord Dunglass (1918 – 1931)
- Lord Dunglass, MP (1931 – 1945)
- Lord Dunglass (1945 – 1950)
- Lord Dunglass, MP (1950 – 1951)
- The Hon. Lord Dunglass, MP (1951)
- The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Home, PC (1951 – 1962)
- The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Home, KT, PC (1962 – 1963)
- The Rt. Hon. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, KT (1963)
- The Rt. Hon. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, KT, MP (1963 – 1974)
- The Rt. Hon. Lord Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (1974 – 1995)
Nicknames Home was constantly referred to as 'Baillie Vass' by the satirical magazine Private Eye. This running joke began in 1964 when a provincial newspaper, the Aberdeen Evening Express accidentally used a picture of Home over a caption referring to a baillie called Vass. Private Eye then affected to believe that Home was an impostor whom the newspaper had unmasked, and the magazine maintained this amusing conceit until Home's death. Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio...
A baillie (alternative spelling bailie, from Old French) was a local civic officer in Scottish burghs, approximately equivalent to the post of alderman or magistrate (see bailiff) in other countries. ...
Sir Alec Douglas-Home's Government, October 1963 – October 1964 - Further information: Conservative Government 1957-1964
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Sir Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, Bt, KC, PC (August 1, 1905-September 7, 1980) was, as the 1st Baron Dilhorne, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1962 to 1964. ...
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor and prior to the Union the Chancellor of England and the Lord Chancellor of Scotland, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom, and its predecessor states. ...
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC (9 October 1907 â 12 October 2001), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham (1950â1963), was a British judge and Conservative politician. ...
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Notes - ^ Family name pronounced 'Hume'
- ^ Connolly, Cyril (1938). Enemies of Promise.
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- Dutton, D. (2006). Alec Douglas-Home (20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century), Haus Publishing.
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- Home of the Hirsel, Lord. (1983). Letters to a Grandson, London: HarperCollins.
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External links - CricketArchive page on Lord Dunglass (Alec Douglas-Home)
- Cricinfo page on Lord Dunglass (Alec Douglas-Home)
- More about Sir Alec Douglas-Home on the Downing Street website.
- Prime Ministers in the Post-War world: Alec Douglas-Home, lecture by D R Thorpe at Gresham College, 24 May 2007 (available for download as an audio or video file)
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Arms of Edward Smith-Stanley Statue in Parliament Square, London Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC (29 March 1799â23 October 1869) was a British statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and is to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative...
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Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns (27 December 1810 - 2 April 1885) was a British statesman (of Irish birth) who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain during the first two ministries of Benjamin Disraeli. ...
His Grace The Duke of Richmond and Lennox Charles Henry Gordon_Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Gordon (February 27, 1818 - September 27, 1903) was a British politician. ...
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ...
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830 â 22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years. ...
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (23 July 1833 - 24 March 1908) was a British Liberal statesman, previously known (1858-1891) as Marquess of Hartington (a courtesy title). ...
The Most Honourable Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE (14 January 1845 â 3 June 1927) was a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for...
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 â 20 March 1925) was a British Conservative statesman who served as Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. ...
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Lord William George Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (27 February 1802â21 September 1848), better known as simply Lord George Bentinck, was an English Conservative politician and racehorse owner, best known (with Benjamin Disraeli) for his role in unseating Sir Robert Peel over the Corn Laws. ...
The Most Noble Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland (1815â1888), known before 1857 as the Marquess of Granby, was an English Conservative politician. ...
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ...
The Most Noble Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland (1815â1888), known before 1857 as the Marquess of Granby, was an English Conservative politician. ...
John Charles Herries (1778 - 1855) was an English politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory and Conservative cabinets in the early to mid 19th century. ...
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ...
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Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 â 24 January 1895) was a British statesman. ...
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Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 â 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. ...
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Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 â 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. ...
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 â 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 â 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, OBE (9 July 1916 â 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ...
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts; born 13 October 1925) served as British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990, being the first and to date only woman to hold either post. ...
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William Jefferson Hague (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire, former leader of the Conservative Party, and current Conservative Shadow Foreign Secretary. ...
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| | Foreign Secretary | Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: Fox · Grantham · Fox · Temple · Leeds · Grenville · Hawkesbury · Harrowby · Mulgrave · Fox · Howick · Canning · Bathurst · Wellesley · Castlereagh · Canning · Dudley · Aberdeen · Palmerston · Wellington · Palmerston · Aberdeen · Palmerston · Granville · Malmesbury · Russell · Clarendon · Malmesbury · Russell · Clarendon · Stanley · Clarendon · Granville · Derby · Salisbury · Granville · Salisbury · Rosebery · Iddesleigh · Salisbury · Rosebery · Kimberley · Salisbury · Lansdowne · Grey · Balfour · Curzon · MacDonald · Chamberlain · Henderson · Reading · Simon · Hoare · Eden · Halifax · Eden · Bevin · Morrison · Eden · Macmillan · Lloyd · Home · Butler · Gordon Walker · Stewart · Brown · Stewart The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (commonly referred to as Foreign Secretary) is a member of the British Government responsible for relations with foreign countries, heading the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (often called simply the Foreign Office). ...
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Thomas boob, 2nd Baron pop (1738-1786), British politician and statesman, was the son of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham. ...
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George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (17 June 1753 - 1813) was a British statesman; he was the second son of George Grenville and a brother of William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville. ...
Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (29 January 1751 â 31 January 1799, was a British politician. ...
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British statesman and Prime Minister. ...
The son of George IIIs close adviser Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool and his part-Indian first wife, Amelia Watts, Robert Jenkinson was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford. ...
Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby (1762-1847), the eldest son of Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby (d. ...
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (14 February 1755 - 7 April 1831) was a British statesman and politician. ...
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The Right Honourable Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764â17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. ...
George Canning (11 April 1770 â 8 August 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister. ...
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (22 May 1762 - 27 July 1834), the elder son of the second earl. ...
Richard Wellesley ,1st Marquess Wellesley The Most Honourable Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (20 June 1760 - 26 September 1842), was the eldest son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. ...
Lord Castlereagh Foreign Secretary 1812â1822 Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC (18 June 1769 in Dublin â 12 August 1822 at Loring Hall, Kent), known until 1821 by his courtesy title of Viscount Castlereagh, was an Anglo-Irish politician born in Dublin who represented the United Kingdom...
George Canning (11 April 1770 â 8 August 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister. ...
John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley PC (9 August 1781 â 6 March 1833), became the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward in 1823. ...
The Right Honourable George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, PC (January 28, 1784âDecember 14, 1860) was a Tory/Peelite politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855. ...
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (20 October 1784 â 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. ...
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ...
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (20 October 1784 â 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. ...
The Right Honourable George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, PC (January 28, 1784âDecember 14, 1860) was a Tory/Peelite politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855. ...
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (20 October 1784 â 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. ...
The Earl Granville Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville KG , PC (11 May 1815 â 31 March 1891) was a British Liberal statesman. ...
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC (18 August 1792 â 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. ...
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (January 12, 1800 - June 27, 1870), was an English diplomat and statesman. ...
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC (18 August 1792 â 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. ...
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (January 12, 1800 - June 27, 1870), was an English diplomat and statesman. ...
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The Earl Granville Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville KG , PC (11 May 1815 â 31 March 1891) was a British Liberal statesman. ...
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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830 â 22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years. ...
The Earl Granville Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville KG , PC (11 May 1815 â 31 March 1891) was a British Liberal statesman. ...
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830 â 22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years. ...
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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830 â 22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years. ...
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John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826-1902), English statesman, was born on 7 January 1826, being the eldest son of the Hon. ...
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830 â 22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years. ...
The Most Honourable Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE (14 January 1845 â 3 June 1927) was a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for...
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (April 25, 1862 â September 7, 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey was a British politician and ornithologist. ...
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The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 â 20 March 1925) was a British Conservative statesman who served as Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. ...
James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866 â 9 November 1937) was a British politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
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The Right Honourable Arthur Henderson (September 13, 1863 â October 20, 1935) was a British politician and union leader. ...
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (10 October 1860 - 30 December 1935) was a British politician and jurist. ...
John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC (1873-1954) was a British politician and statesman. ...
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood GCSI , GBE , CMG , PC (24 February 1880 â 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a British Conservative politician who served in various capacities in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
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Cover of Time Magazine April 12, 1926 Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, known as Lord Irwin from 1926 until 1934, (1881-1959) was a British Conservative politician. ...
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Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951) was a British labour leader, politician, and statesman best known for his time as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government. ...
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 â 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...
John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd (28 July 1904 - 18 May 1978), known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative politician. ...
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 â 8 March 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. ...
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker (7 April 1907â2 December 1980) was a British politician. ...
The Right Honourable Captain Robert Maitland Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, PC (November 6, 1906, Bromley - March 13, 1990) was a British Labour politician who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson. ...
George Alfred Brown, later George Alfred George-Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC (2 September 1914 â 2 June 1985) was a British politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and was a senior Cabinet minister (including as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) in...
The Right Honourable Captain Robert Maitland Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, PC (November 6, 1906, Bromley - March 13, 1990) was a British Labour politician who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson. ...
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Stewart · Douglas-Home · Callaghan · Crosland · Owen · Carrington · Pym · Howe · Major · Hurd · Rifkind · Cook · Straw · Beckett · Miliband The Right Honourable Captain Robert Maitland Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, PC (November 6, 1906, Bromley - March 13, 1990) was a British Labour politician who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson. ...
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 â 26 March 2005), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. ...
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 - 19 February 1977) was a member of the Labour Party and an important socialist theorist. ...
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH, PC (born July 2, 1938) is a British politician, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and one of the founders of the British Social Democratic Party (SDP). ...
Lord Carrington wearing his robes as a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter, in procession to St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle for the annual service of the Order of the Garter. ...
Popular conservative British politician Francis Pym, during his Cambridge years Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, MC and Bar, PC (born 13 February 1922) is a British Conservative Party politician and former member of the Cabinet. ...
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, PC, QC (born 20 December 1926), known until 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician. ...
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Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, KCMG, QC (born 21 June 1946) is a Scottish Conservative and Unionist politician and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Kensington and Chelsea. ...
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