Douglas-Home. In 1918 the 12th Earl of Home died; Dunglass succeeded him in the earldom, and the courtesy title passed to his son, Alec Douglas-Home,...
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Earl of Home, Alec Douglas-Home. However, as no prime minister had led from the House of Lords since the Marquess of Salisbury in 1902, Home chose to...
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in 2022. Home was born in London, the only son of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the 14th Earl of Home and British prime minister and later Lord Home of the Hirsel...
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Honourable Henry Douglas-Home from his first marriage to Lady Margaret Spencer. His uncle was the former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and his younger...
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September 1990) was the wife of British politician and prime minister Alec Douglas-Home. She was born Elizabeth Hester Alington, the second daughter of the...
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the title was the 14th Earl, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, better known as Sir Alec Douglas-Home. After the unexpected resignation of Harold Macmillan...
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Conservative government, 1957–1964 (redirect from Douglas-Home Ministry)
Macmillan ministry, and then the Douglas-Home ministry. They were respectively led by Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home, who were appointed by Queen...
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of three prime ministers: Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. She died in 1980 after having retired to the home of a civil servant. Manninagh...
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William Pitt the Elder. Alec Douglas-Home was the great-great-great-grandson of Lord Grey. Lord Russell and Alec Douglas-Home. Harold Macmillan was married...
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Douglas-Home is a surname. Notable people with this name include: Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), British Conservative politician Andrew Douglas-Home (born...
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prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home. He was born on 29 December 1873, the only son of Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home, and Maria Grey, the...
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Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, and Alec Douglas-Home. He was euthanised after suffering a liver infection, aged 16, and...
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he reportedly said "No comment ... in glorious Technicolor!"). Sir Alec Douglas-Home was an aristocrat who had given up his peerage to sit in the House...
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1964 United Kingdom general election (category Alec Douglas-Home)
October 1964. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, narrowly losing to the Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson; Labour...
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Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home. The post has been held by Larry since 2011, the first to be given...
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Conservative Party elected Edward Heath as its leader, replacing Alec Douglas-Home. Heath announced his Shadow Cabinet on 5 August 1965. Edward Heath...
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[Sir] Alec Douglas-Who?, referencing his relative obscurity, short premiership with few achievements, and mildmannered nature. Home Sweet Home, Churchill's...
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Edward Heath (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
Privy Seal and in 1963, was made President of the Board of Trade by Alec Douglas-Home. After the Conservatives were defeated at the 1964 election, Heath...
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leadership election was held in July 1965 to find a successor to Alec Douglas-Home. It was the first time that a formal election by the parliamentary...
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The Shadow Cabinet of Alec Douglas-Home was created on 16 October 1964 following the defeat in the 1964 general election. Politics portal United Kingdom...
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Tom and Clem, by Stephen Churchett. In the original production in 1997, Alec McCowen played Attlee, and Michael Gambon played Tom Driberg. Played by Alan...
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the previous holder, was Alec Douglas-Home, a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is married to Colette Douglas-Home, a psychotherapeutic counselor...
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Earl of Stockton, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David...
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Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home, and Lady Lilian Lambton, daughter of the 4th Earl of Durham. His eldest brother was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime...
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British prime ministers serving from 1964 to his death in 2013, from Alec Douglas-Home to David Cameron, and all seven American presidents in office from...
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successors Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, and Theresa May all accepted life peerages (although Douglas-Home...
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five prime ministers: three Conservatives, Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and Edward Heath, and two from the Labour Party, Harold Wilson (who...
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unknown reasons, Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home was not advised of Anthony Blunt's spying, although the Queen and Home Secretary Henry Brooke were informed...
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original "five principles" proposed by Alec Douglas-Home, now foreign secretary. In November 1971, Douglas-Home renewed contacts with Salisbury and announced...
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subjects include Charles III, Constantine II, Cary Grant, Enoch Powell, Alec Douglas-Home, Sophia Loren, Louis Mountbatten and Laurence Olivier. After growing...
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