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Alec Douglas-Home
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Alec Douglas-Home

1903 – 1995 · aged 92

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964

Born
2 Jul 1903 · Mayfair
Died
9 Oct 1995 · The Hirsel
Part ofUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland1731 – 1942

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 2 Jul 1903BornBorn in Mayfair
  2. 1931 – 1935RoleMember of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  3. 1935 – 1945RoleMember of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  4. 1935 – 1937RoleParliamentary Private Secretary to the Cabinet Office
  5. 1937 – 1940RoleParliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
  6. 1944RoleDeputy Lieutenant
  7. 1945RoleUndersecretary
  8. 1950 – 1951RoleMember of the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  9. 1951 – 1963RoleMember of the House of Lords
  10. 1951RoleMember of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
  11. 1951 – 1955RoleSecretary of State for Scotland
  12. 1955 – 1960RoleSecretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
  13. 1957 – 1960RoleLeader of the House of Lords
  14. 1959 – 1960RoleLord President of the Council
  15. 1960 – 1963RoleSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  16. 1960RoleDeputy Lieutenant
  17. 1960AwardDoctor of Law (honorary)
  18. 1962AwardOrder of the Thistle
  19. 1963 – 1965RoleLeader of the Conservative Party
  20. 1963 – 1964RolePrime Minister of the United Kingdom
  21. 1963 – 1964RoleMember of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
  22. 1964 – 1966RoleMember of the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom
  23. 1964 – 1965RoleLeader of the Opposition
  24. 1966 – 1969RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  25. 1966 – 1970RoleMember of the 44th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  26. 1966 – 1970RoleShadow Foreign Secretary
  27. 1970 – 1974RoleMember of the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  28. 1970 – 1974RoleSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  29. 1973 – 1992RoleChancellor of the Order of the Thistle
  30. 1974RoleMember of the 46th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  31. 1974 – 1995RoleMember of the House of Lords
  32. 9 Oct 1995DiedDied in The Hirsel

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1903 – 1995).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964 and Leader of the Conservative Party until 1965. He was the last prime minister to hold office while being a member of the House of Lords, before 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 seven years over two stints as Foreign Secretary than on his brief premiership.

Born to nobility in the Peerage of Scotland, Douglas-Home was educated at Eton and Oxford and entered the House of Commons in 1931. Within six years, he became a parliamentary aide to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, witnessing the government's efforts to maintain peace through appeasement before the Second World War. In 1940, he was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis, which forced him to suspend his political activities for nearly two years. After recovering, he returned to politics, although he lost his parliamentary seat in the 1945 general election before regaining it in 1950. The following year, he succeeded to the earldom of Home upon the death of his father and consequently moved to the House of Lords. During the premierships of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Harold Macmillan, he held a number of senior offices, including Leader of the House of Lords and Foreign Secretary. As Foreign Secretary from 1960 to 1963, he supported the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis and signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty on behalf of the United Kingdom.

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