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Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (/?hju?m/), KT, PC (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995) 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 (then called by the courtesy title Lord Dunglass) 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. He regained it in 1950, but the following year he left the Commons when, on the death of his father, he inherited the earldom of Home and thereby became a member of the House of Lords. Under the premierships of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan he was appointed to a series of increasingly senior posts, including Leader of the House of Lords and Foreign Secretary. In the latter post, which he held from 1960 to 1963, he supported United States resolve in the Cuban missile crisis and was the United Kingdom's signatory of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in August 1963.In October 1963 Macmillan was taken ill and resigned as Prime Minister. Home was chosen to succeed him. By the 1960s it was generally considered unacceptable for a Prime Minister to sit in the House of Lords, and Home renounced his earldom and successfully stood for election to the House of Commons. The manner of his appointment was controversial, and two of Macmillan's cabinet ministers refused to take office under him. He was criticised by the Labour Party as an aristocrat, out of touch with the problems of ordinary families, and he came over stiffly in television interviews, by contrast with the Labour leader, Harold Wilson. The Conservative Party, in office since 1951, had lost standing as a result of a sexual scandal involving a defence minister in 1963, and at the time of Home's appointment as Prime Minister seemed headed for heavy electoral defeat. Home's premiership was the second briefest of the twentieth century, lasting two days short of a year. Among the legislation passed under his government was the abolition of resale price maintenance, bringing costs down for the consumer against the interests of producers of food and other commodities.After narrow defeat in the general election of 1964 Douglas-Home resigned the leadership of his party, having in
Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel
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David, Diana, Caroline, Meriel
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Cancer
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[on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy] This young, gay and brave statesman killed in the full vigour of his manhood when he bore on his shoulders all the cares and the hopes of the world.
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The only Prime Minister to have played first class cricket at the school, club and county levels.
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Foiled a plot to kidnap himself in April 1964. Two student radicals followed Douglas-Home's car to the house of Baron Tweedsmuir, where he was staying as a guest. Douglas-Home, who was alone at the time, answered the door and found the two students, who announced that they were going to kidnap him. Douglas-Home replied "I suppose you realize if you do, the Conservatives will win the election by 200 or 300." After packing some items, he offered his would be kidnappers some beer, which they accepted. They were eventually convinced by Douglas-Home to abandon the plan and leave the house voluntarily. He never spoke publicly of this incident because he did not want his bodyguard's career to be destroyed. He did tell Quintin Hogg, who served as Lord Chancellor during Douglas-Home's premiership, in 1977. Hogg recorded this conversation in his personal diaries.
The second part of his surname is pronounced "Hume", not "Home".
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Educated at Eton College, he became the last British prime minister to have received a private schooling until Tony Blair was elected in 1997.
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His titles were: Sir Alexander (Alec) Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home; Lord Home; Lord Dunglass; Baron Douglas of Douglas; and Chief of the Name and Arms of Home. When he disclaimed his hereditary peerages for life on 23 October 1963, he kept his title "Sir" as a Knight of the Thistle. In 1975 he was created Baron Home of the Hirsel; this was a life peerage and so not inherited by his son who is known as the 15th Earl of Home.
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The last Prime Minister to have previously sat in the House of Lords.
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He was the last Conservative Party leader to achieve office not by general election or election within the party but by what was termed "emergence". Harold Macmillan, who was resigning on the grounds of ill health, put forward Home's name to the Queen as a means of preventing the more popular but non-aristocratic 'Rab' Butler from succeeding him. As the party was in power at the time (October 1963), Home's position was confirmed by his being sent for by the Queen to "kiss hands" and receive the seals of office.
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British prime minister (1963-1964).
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Title
Year
Status
Character
The Complete Churchill
1992
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Unionist MP 1931-1945 / Himself - Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chamberlain, 1937-1940
The Road to War
1989
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - P.P.S. to Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940
Everyman
1986
TV Series documentary
Himself
End of Empire
1985
TV Series documentary
Himself
Reputations
1983
TV Series
Himself
This Is Your Life
1982
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Gentleman Factory
1981
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Brian Connell Interview
1977
TV Series
Himself
Weekend World
1974
TV Series
Himself
This Week
1964-1965
TV Series
Himself
Panorama
1963-1964
TV Series documentary
Himself
1964 General Election
1964
TV Special documentary
Himself (as Sir Alec Douglas-Home)
World in Action
1963
TV Series documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
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Year
Status
Character
The Diamond Queen
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
Beeching's Legacy
2012
TV Mini-Series
Himself (uncredited)
The Queen: A Life in Film
2008
Video documentary
Himself
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
Not Cricket: The Basil d'Oliveira Conspiracy
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Truth About 60s TV
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Arena
1989
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Rock 'n' Roll Years
1985-1986
TV Series
Himself - Retiring Leader of the Opposition / Himself