Alec Douglas-Home
Politician
1903 – 1995
Who was Alec Douglas-Home?
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from October 1963 to October 1964. He is notable for being the last Prime Minister to hold office while being a member of the House of Lords, prior to renouncing his peerage and taking up a seat in the House of Commons for the remainder of his premiership. His reputation, however, rests more on his two spells as the UK's foreign minister than on his brief premiership.
Within six years of first entering the House of Commons in 1931, Douglas-Home became parliamentary aide to Neville Chamberlain, witnessing at first hand Chamberlain's efforts as Prime Minister to preserve peace through appeasement in the two years before the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1940 Dunglass was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis and was immobilised for two years. By the later stages of the war he had recovered enough to resume his political career, but lost his seat in the general election of 1945.
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- Born
- Jul 2, 1903
Mayfair, London - Also known as
- Sir Alec Douglas-Home
- Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home, later Baron Home of the Hirsel
- アレクサンダー・フレデリック・ダグラス=ヒューム
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Scottish Episcopal Church
- Ethnicity
- Scottish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Ludgrove School
- Eton College
- Christ Church, Oxford
( - 1925) - University of Oxford
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Oct 9, 1995
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on July 23, 2013
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