| Alec Douglas-Home  AKA Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home
Born: 2-Jul-1903
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 9-Oct-1995
Location of death: Berwickshire, Scotland
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Coldstream, Borders, Scotland
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Head of State, Politician Nationality: Scotland
Executive summary: UK Prime Minister, 1963-64 Father: Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home(d. 1951)
Mother: Lilian Lambton
Brother: William Douglas-Home (playwright)
Brother: Henry (ornithologist)
Wife: Elizabeth Hester Alington (d. Sep-1990)
Son: David
Daughter: (3 daughters)
University: Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England
University: Oxford University
UK Foreign Secretary (1970-74)
UK Prime Minister (1963-64)
UK Member of Parliament for Kinross and Western Perthshire (1963-74)
UK Foreign Secretary (1960-63)
Lord President of the Council (1959-60)
UK Leader of the House of Lords (1957-60)
Lord President of the Council (1957)
UK Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (1955-60)
UK Minister Minister of State for Scotland (1951-55)
UK Member of Parliament House of Lords (1951-63, disclaimed)
UK Member of Parliament for Lanark (1950-51)
UK Member of Parliament for Lanark (1931-45)
Carlton Club
Conservative Party (UK) Leader (1963-65)
Knight of the British Empire Order of the Thistle (1962)
Life Peerage 1974 as Baron Home of the Hirsel
Scottish Ancestry Paternal
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 25-Oct-1963, DETAILS: Britain's Lord Home
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