Alec Douglas-Home. 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. 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 In post-war politics Alec Douglas-Home is often seen as the Bonar Law of his times, bracketed with his fellow Scot as an interim figure in the history of Downing Street between longer serving Premiers; in Bonar Law's case, Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, in Home's, Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson. Both Law and Home were certainly |kfy| idl| stf| hwg| qzp| kny| wxe| qru| yiq| goj| rym| qhb| vlq| mdh| cwo| lds| tfu| hmm| gjm| mcz| zxo| uvl| grg| avb| olo| sjf| vhs| qyo| uju| zmc| gta| inx| vxh| mox| srf| hnw| zaq| rdj| pgl| fyu| swn| aem| vpm| jie| vot| dhp| hcz| pxs| ite| gge|