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Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Former Prime Minister and President of the Longridge Towers School 1983 – 1995

Sir Alec Douglas-Home was born in Mayfair, London, into an aristocratic family. The Homes were an old-established Scottish family, tracing ancestors back to the 1200s and the Earls of Dunglass. David Hume famously fought at Flodden. Sir Alec Douglas-Home attended Eton College followed by Oxford University, where he graduated with a BA in Modern History. He also played first class cricket for prominent clubs.

In 1931, he entered Parliament as a Scottish Unionist Party MP for Lanark. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain from 1937 to 1939.

After his father passed away, he became the 14th Earl of Home and took a seat in the House of Lords. He served as Commonwealth Secretary during the Suez Crisis of 1956, in addition to holding the positions of Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council.
In 1959, the Conservative Party under Harold Macmillan won the General Election. The following year, Sir Alec Douglas-Home was appointed Foreign Secretary. He remained in the role until 18 October 1963, when he became Prime Minister.

On October 23, 1963, Sir Alec signed an instrument of disclaimer of four titles of Scotl

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Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. He was better known as Alec Douglas-Home.^[1]

Home was a Member of Parliament and a junior official (a Parliamentary Private Secretary) when Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet Adolf Hitler in 1938. He was present at the main meetings between Hitler and Chamberlain. Later in life, he was appointed by Harold Macmillan as Foreign Secretary in 1960–1963, and again in Edward Heath's government from 1970 to 1974.

Home's name and title changed a few times during his life. Born as Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, he became Lord Dunglass when his father became the Earl of Home. Dunglass is a junior title, that is, a lower title which is held by the eldest son. When his father died Alec became the 14th Earl of Home. He also became Baron Douglas in the peerage of the United Kingdom (that was also a junior title).

Leader of Party and Prime Minister

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When he was chosen as Leader of the Conservative Party after Harold Macmillan retired, he knew it would be difficult to lead a government from the House of Lords. So he renounced his title, four days