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	Alec Douglas-Home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lord Home, as he then was, served not only as Commonwealth Secretary from 1955 but, from 1957, also as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council (the latter twice; briefly in 1957 and subsequently from 1959).
		Home, the first British Prime Minister born in the 20th century, believed it would be impractical to serve as PM from the Lords (it was widely believed that Lord Curzon had not been invited to become prime minister in the 1920s because of his seat in the Lords).
		In 1973 Home intimated his intention to retire from Parliament and government at the next general election, but was overtaken by the calling of a snap general election in February 1974.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home (1257 words)

	Alec Douglas-Home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This did not blunt his political aspirations, though, as Lord Home, as he then was, served not only as Commonwealth Secretary from 1955 but, from 1957, also as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council (the latter twice; briefly in 1957 and subsequently from 1959).
		Home, the first British prime minister born in the 20th century, believed it impractical to serve as Prime Minister from the Lords (it was widely believed that Lord Curzon had not been invited to become prime minister in the 1920s because of his position in the Lords).
		Home was the third-longest lived British Prime Minister behind Harold Macmillan and James Callaghan.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alec_Douglas-Home (1172 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alec Douglas-Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Right Honourable Sir Edward (Ted) Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 â€“ 17 July 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.
		Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel KT1 (July 2, 1903 - October 9, 1995), known from 1951 to 1963 as the 14th Earl of Home, was a British politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964.
		The Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Home Secretary) is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in England and Wales; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, internal security, and matters of citizenship and immigration.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alec-Douglas_Home (5375 words)

	MyClan.com : Clan Home : Clan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir Alexander Home of Dunglass was captured at the Battle of Homildon in 1402.
		Home was appointed one of the counsellors to the Queen Regent.
		Lord Home was accused of conspiring with the English and was arrested for treason, and he and his brother were executed in October 1516, after which their heads were displayed on the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Home_52/default.php (900 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 16 Oct 1995
		Alec Home was not, of course, personally responsible for the agreements reached, but, with a loyalty that was characteristic of the man, he would never subsequently criticise Chamberlain's actions.
		Alec Douglas-Home was above all a man of honour, who stayed a man of honour: a decent man who, through all the temptations and anxieties of politics, remained decent--not a man from another age, but a rarity in any age; a good servant of the people, for whose life we give thanks.
		Sir Alec's earlier experience as Minister of State, Scottish Office led him to recognise with equal consistency the shortcomings of Scottish legislation at Westminster and, as the Leader of the Opposition has said, he advocated the creation of an elected Scottish convention.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-10-16/Debate-1.html (6773 words)

	AllRefer.com - Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick, Baron Home of the Hirsel (British And Irish History, Biography) - ...
		Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick, Baron Home of the Hirsel[dug´lus-hyOOm] Pronunciation Key, 1903–95, British politician.
		Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1931 as a Conservative.
		As prime minister, he was handicapped by the divisions within his party and the continuing distraction of the Profumo scandal.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DouglHo.html (409 words)

	Clan HOME, HUME
		Sir Thomas de Home, in the reign of Robert III married Nichola Pepdie heiress of Dunglass and hence acquired those lands in Berwickshire.
		The earliest record is of Aldan de Home (1172-78), whose descendant, Sir Alexander, fought beside the Earl of Douglas at Homildon Hill in 1402, and died with him at Verneuil in 1424.
		Their great-grandson, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, born in 1903, entered politics, became an M.P. in 1931 and was secretary to Neville Chamberlain during the latter's ill-fated negotiations with Adolf Hitler just prior to the start of the second World War.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/htol/home2.html (701 words)

	Alec Douglas-Home
		Using the Peerage Act 1963 passed earlier in the same year after the campaign of Tony Benn to renounce his peerage, Home disclaimed his Earldom and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home contested a by-election in a safe seat.
		The government had been too badly damaged to survive, however, and the general election of October, 1964, was won by the Labour Party under the new leadership of Harold Wilson.
		In 1974, following the defeat of the Heath government by that of Harold Wilson, Home was restored to the House of Lords when he accepted a life peerage, and became known as Baron Home of the Hirsel (The Hirsel being his family seat in Berwickshire) for the rest of his life.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alec_douglas_home.html (950 words)

	Edward Heath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Right Honourable Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (born July 9, 1916) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.
		Under Sir Alec Douglas-Home he was President of the Board of Trade and oversaw the abolition of retail price maintenance.
		Initially this trend was spearheaded by Sir Keith Joseph and, although Margaret Thatcher was associated with the CPS she was seen as a potential go between by Heath's lieutenant James Prior.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Edward_Heath (1994 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 22 \| 1965: Sir Alec steps down from top of Tory tree
		Sir Alec - as he is known, after renouncing his title to enter the House of Commons - says he made the decision after spending the weekend at one of his homes in Scotland.
		Sir Alec would not name his preferred choice and said he would serve the Conservative Party in any capacity required by the new leader.
		Sir Alec served as shadow foreign secretary for Mr Heath until the Conservatives won the 1970 general election.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/22/newsid_2784000/2784465.stm (490 words)

	Coldstream - The Guards, Sir Alec Douglas Hume, Flodden, Abbey and Ancient Market Place
		This great column surmounted by a figure was raised by the friends of Sir Charles Marjoribanks to commemorate his election to parliament after the first great reform bill of 1832.
		Sir Charles was the son of Sir John Marjoribanks who owned a large estate called The Lees which is on the west side of the town.
		This distinguished family has always given valuable and valiant service to the nation and indeed the 14th Earl, Sir Alec Douglas Home, who had to renounce his title to serve in the House of Commons, served as Foreign Secretary and then Prime Minister in 1963.
	www.coldstream-scotland.co.uk /about.html (977 words)

	Released by the National Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir Alec Doublas-Home then broached the question of Gibraltar and developed the basic principle of HMG's position, namely that they could no coerce the Gibraltarians into accepting transfer to a third power against their will.
		Sir Alec wished to ask General Franco personally and directly whether some gesture could not now be made towards the Gibraltarians in the form, of an at least partial lifting of those restrictions.
		Sir Alec added that he already knew from the Spanish Foreign Minister that this would be difficult; but he still wished to put it to the Head of State.
	www.gibnet.com /texts/con_adh.htm (373 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Gibraltar faced secret handover under Heath
		Sir Alec suggested it be put on a similar footing to Hong Kong, which was at the time still being leased from China, in order to appease Spanish sentiment.
		Sir John Russell, the ambassador to Madrid, said that Spain's attitude was not unreasonable.
		"Sir Alec Douglas-Home wondered if there were any merit in examining ideas for some form of token recognition of Spanish sovereignty over Gibraltar, for example by means of a 999-year lease," the Foreign Office minute records.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/14/ngib14.xml (714 words)

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		The Conservative leader, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, was widely perceived as a distant, awkward aristocrat.
		Sir Alec had spent most of his political career in the House of Lords and was unused to the cut and thrust of political debate.
		Sir Alec's lack of charisma was blamed for the Tory defeat.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/background/pastelec/ge64.shtml (1345 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Foreign Secretaries in History
		Home, 13th Earl of, later Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Lord Home of the Hirsel: An able and tough negotiator with the Russians.
		Simon, Sir John, later 1st Viscount: a lawyer, cool in manner and excessively correct, he once committed the error of saying in public that something made him 'boil', henceforth he was persistently caricatured by the cartoonist David Low with a kettle upon his head.
		Grey, Sir Edward, later Viscount Grey of Fallodon: holds the longest continuous term of any Foreign Secretary, and it was from his room that he observed 'the lamps...
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	Alec Douglas-Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Home was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign AffairsForeign Secretary in 1960.
		Home, the first British prime minister born in the 20th century, believed it impractical to serve as Prime Minister from the Lords (it was widely believed that George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of KedlestonLord Curzon had not been invited to become prime minister in the 1920s because of his position in the Lords).
		The government had been too badly damaged to survive, however, and the UK general election, 1964October 1964 general election was won by the British Labour PartyLabour Party under the new leadership of Harold Wilson/, but by a much narrower margin than was expected.
	www.infothis.com /find/Alec_Douglas-Home (1079 words)

	Harold Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wilson's resignation honours list included many businessmen and showbusiness stars along with his political supporters, and caused lasting damage to his reputation when it was revealed that the first draft of the list had been written by Marcia Williams on lavender notepaper (it became known as the Lavender List).
		Some of those Wilson honoured were later revealed to have been corrupt, including who went to jail for fraud and Sir Eric Miller who committed suicide while under investigation.
		Douglas Jay (1964-1967) - President of the Board of Trade
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	Sir Alec Douglas-Home
		Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, Alec Douglas-Home was the first peer to become PM since Salisbury in 1895.
		Home served briefly in Churchill's caretaker post-war government, but lost his seat in the subsequent Labour landslide.
		With the Conservatives returned to power, Home was made Minister of State in the Scottish Office until 1955, when he joined the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.
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	Back Viet Parley, U.K. Urges Russ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The response of Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Smirnovsky to the proposal by Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home was merely to say he would forward the idea on to Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko in Moscow.
		"Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as one of the two cochairmen, proposed the reconvening of the Geneva conference.
		The Soviet ambassador undertook to convey Sir Alec's views to Mr.
	www.thebattleofkontum.com /stars/249.html (308 words)

	Anthony Lambton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anthony Claud Frederick Lambton (born 10 July 1922) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1951 until 1973, and a cousin of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the former Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, and.
		Although his gardening was once seen as evidence of mental problems, Lambton has not given it up, and has spent 20 years restoring the house and gardens of the Villa Cetinale his new home in southern Italy.
		He continues, despite the rules of peerage, to use the courtesy title "Lord Lambton".
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/a/an/anthony_lambton.html (403 words)

	British Prime Ministers: Home, Sir Alec Douglas- (1903-1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In October 1963 he disclaimed his peerages for life, took the name Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and succeeded Harold Macmillan as prime minister during a Conservative Party crisis, the most spectacular feature of which was an adultery scandal involving John Dennis Profumo, secretary of state for war from 1960 to 1963.
		Admittedly having slight knowledge of economics, Sir Alec as prime minister was unable to improve the deteriorating British balance-of-payments situation.
		Lord Home's papers are, at the time of writing, still held in private possession, although his correspondence can be found in other collections.
	www.mdlg05075.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /douglashome.htm (305 words)

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		On the eve of her address to both houses of parliament, four former prime ministers - Sir Edward Heath, Lord Callaghan, Baroness Thatcher and John Major - attended the dinner.
		Sir Harold Wilson's widow, Lady Wilson, and her son Robin Wilson were there along with Harold Macmillan's grandson, the Earl of Stockton, Sir Alec Douglas-Home's son and daughter-in-law, the Earl and Countess of Home, Sir Anthony Eden's widow, the Countess of Avon, and Sir Winston Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames.
		The first was Sir Winston, who was much taken with the 25-year-old sovereign he nurtured through her early years.
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	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| THE ELECTION BATTLES 1945-1997
		For the Tories, Sir Alec Douglas-Home attempted to win voters by standing on the government's record and by highlighting his expertise in foreign affairs.
		But Wilson was able cunningly to undermine Sir Alec’s attempts to win over the voters when he cruelly highlighted an admission by the prime minister that he used match sticks to help him think through economic problems.
		But although he often appeared awkward on television, which was becoming an increasingly important point of contact with the voters, Sir Alec showed he was able to defend himself from Wilson's biting wit - pointing out that although he might be a 14th Earl, Wilson was, after all, the 14th Mr Wilson.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/vote2001/in_depth/election_battles/1964_camp.stm (307 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir Henry had a Meet Cute with Libby in Morocco 15 years ago, and they were married by a Bedouin prince but never had a ``real marriage'' (a Bedouin prince not ranking as high in this system as a justice of the peace).
		Then Sir Henry's evil adviser (Jonathan Pryce) plotted to drive them apart, and she fled to Chinatown, believing Sir Henry did not love her and nobly saving him the embarrassment of a pregnant American commoner.
		And an odd scene in which Daphne is locked in a bedroom, released just as Queen Elizabeth II is arriving at a party, and flees in tears -- causing her father to choose between chasing her and greeting the queen.
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	Douglas-Home, Sir Alec -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		9, 1995, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland), as Sir Alec Douglas-Home, served as prime minister from Oct. 19, 1963, to Oct. 16, 1964.
		The fictional character Sir Geraint is a knight of Arthurian legend.
		Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
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	The Holden Republic: A Constitutionally Useless Head of State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The dismissal by the Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr of the Whitlam government in 1975 is one of the best examples of the latter problem.
		The Queen’s appointment of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister on the advice of the outgoing Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan in 1963 is another example of the potential for politicisation of the Head of State.
		Whilst the Queen was perfectly within her constitutional abilities, and was in fact bound by convention to appoint Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister, the surrounding controversy of the appointment against the Conservative caucus preference of Lord Hailsham as party leader (and therefore Prime Minister).
	www.holdenrepublic.org.nz /2005/07/constitutionally-useless-head-of-state.html (981 words)

	Alec Douglas-Home Biography / Biography of Alec Douglas-Home Biography Biography
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		As the future fourteenth earl of Home, he was heir to 134,000 acres of land and coal mines in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
		Home was raised at Springhill House in Scotland for the first sixteen years of his life and returned there as an adult after his marriage.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-alec-douglas-home (238 words)

	Clan Home/Hume
		His brother, William Douglas Home, is a distinguished author and play-wright.
		The family seat is the splendid border estate of the Hirsel, from which the former Prime Minister named the life peerage bestowed upon him for service to the nation, as Lord Home of the Hirsel.
		On the land there is the remains of Castles, one of them being the Home Castle, which is situated in the west of the Clan Home land, it is a large square fort with high simple walls.
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