Alec Douglas-Home

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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...

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