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Alec Douglas-Home, właśc.Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home (ur.2 lipca 1903 w Londynie, zm. 9 października 1995 w Coldstream) – brytyjski arystokrata, dyplomata i polityk. W czasie swej długiej kariery Home był osobistym sekretarzem premiera Neville’a Chamberlaina, dwukrotnym ministrem spraw zagranicznych oraz, w latach 1963–1964, premierem rządu Jej Królewskiej Mości.
Alec Douglas-Home. Lord Home of the Hirsel, The Baron, KT, PC, who died at his home on October 9, 1995, aged 92, was the only British prime minister to have played first-class cricket. As Lord ...
The Douglas and Home families were united by marriage in 1832, and, when Alec was born, his grandfather, the 12th Earl, owned well over 100,000 acres, with estates in Berwickshire and Lanarkshire — the latter containing valuable coal deposits — as well as several grouse moors, valuable fishing rights over a long stretch of the River Tweed, and castles at Douglas and the Hirsel, near ...
Prime minister. Douglas‐Home succeeded to the earldom in 1951 but relinquished it in 1963 to re‐enter the Commons as prime minister, in succession to Harold Macmillan. In 1974 he returned to the House of Lords as Lord Home of the Hirsel. He was first elected in 1931 and served as private secretary to Neville Chamberlain (1937–40 ...
10 ott 1995 · Lord Home of the Hirsel, the languid aristocrat who, as Sir Alec Douglas-Home, was Prime Minister of Britain for 12 months in 1963 and 1964, died yesterday at his home in Berwickshire, Scotland ...
2 nov 2021 · Alec Douglas-Home by Thorpe, D. R., 1943-Publication date 1997 Topics Home, Alec Douglas-Home, Baron, Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography, Prime ...
It gives his occupation as politician. (National Records of Scotland, 1995/781/44) Prime Minister, 1963-1964 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home was born in London on 2 July 1903, the son of Charles Douglas-Home, 13th earl of Home and Lilian Lambton. After Oxford and a cricket tour with the MCC he became involved in the family's estates at the ...
