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Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC ( / ˈhjuːm /; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
- Harold Macmillan
Macmillan was succeeded by Foreign Secretary Alec...
- Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC,...
- David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home
Background and education. Home was born in London, the only...
- Alec Douglas-Home
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel,...
- Harold Macmillan
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel,, styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home was a British foreign secretary from 1960 to 1963, prime minister from Oct. 19, 1963, to Oct. 16, 1964, and, after the fall of his government, Conservative opposition spokesman in the House of Commons on foreign affairs.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Alec Douglas-Home. Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home o the Hirsel KT PC ( / ˈhjuːm /; 2 Julie 1903 – 9 October 1995) wis a Breetish Conservative politeecian that served as Prime Meenister frae October 1963 tae October 1964. He is notable for bein the maist recent Prime Meenister tae haud office while bein a member o the Hoose o ...
Douglas-Home (then known by his courtesy title of Lord Dunglass) became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Neville Chamberlain. When Chamberlain became Prime Minister in 1937, he retained Dunglass as his PPS. Dunglass even accompanied Chamberlain on the Munich visit in September 1938.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home was an unexpected Prime Minister and served for only 363 days, the second shortest premiership in the 20th century – but he pushed his plan as he did not see any reason...
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