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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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 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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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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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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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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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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William Pitt the Elder. Alec Douglas-Home was the great-great-great-grandson of Lord Grey. Lord Russell and Alec Douglas-Home. The first prime minister...
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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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Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home. The castle was located around 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north-east of the village of Douglas, South Lanarkshire, in...
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Wales, the Duke of Sussex, British politician and Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, historian Alistair Horne, investigative journalist Paul Foot, and...
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1964 United Kingdom general election (category Alec Douglas-Home)
It resulted in the Conservatives, led by incumbent 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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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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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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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 Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who were appointed by Queen...
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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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(1958–1979) Created under the premierships of Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath and James Callaghan List of life peerages...
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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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former prime minister to be appointed to a ministerial post since Alec Douglas-Home in 1970. Cameron has been credited for helping to modernise the Conservative...
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were five prime ministers: three Conservatives, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, and Edward Heath, and two from the Labour Party, Harold Wilson (who...
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The Hirsel (category Alec Douglas-Home)
the mid-17th century. It was the home of the former British prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the 14th Earl of Home. A large mellow Georgian house...
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Election Night Special (category Alec Douglas-Home)
Bristols. "That's not a result, that's a bit of gossip." (see above) Sir Alec Douglas-Home has taken Oldham for the Stone-Dead Party. A small piece of putty...
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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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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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For unknown reasons, Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home was not informed of Blunt's spying, although the Queen and Home Secretary Henry Brooke had been fully...
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13 13= Harold Macmillan Conservative 1957–1963 06 05 02 04 04 05 Alec Douglas-Home Conservative 1963–1964 15 19 05 11 12 12 Harold Wilson Labour 1964–1970...
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exception was during the long summer recess in 1963: Alec Douglas-Home, then the 14th Earl of Home, disclaimed his peerage (under a new mechanism which...
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Archbishop of Canterbury or York. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who had renounced his hereditary title of the 14th Earl of Home on becoming Prime Minister, was the...
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