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Alec Douglas-Home

1903 - 1995

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Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel ( HEWM; 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 statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. 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 two stints as Foreign Secretary than on his brief premiership. Within six years of first entering the House of Commons in 1931, Douglas-Home (then called by the courtesy title Lord Dunglass) became a parliamentary aide to Neville Chamberlain, witnessing first-hand Chamberlain's efforts as prime minister to preserve peace through appeasement in the two years before the outbreak of the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alec Douglas-Home is the 2,834th most popular politician (down from 2,670th in 2019), the 703rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 571st in 2019) and the 141st most popular British Politician.

Alec Douglas-Home was a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.

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Among politicians, Alec Douglas-Home ranks 2,834 out of 19,576. Before him are Haakon Magnusson of Norway, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, Norman Angell, Muhammad Azam Shah, John of Brienne, and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo. After him are Hilda Heine, Shirkuh, Mohammed Alim Khan, Tipu Sultan, Alexander I of Macedon, and Albrecht von Roon.

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Among people born in 1903, Alec Douglas-Home ranks 39. Before him are Raymond Queneau, John Dillinger, Hans Jonas, Irène Némirovsky, John Eccles, and The French Angel. After him are Bing Crosby, Jiro Horikoshi, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Igor Kurchatov, Matthias Sindelar, and Claudette Colbert. Among people deceased in 1995, Alec Douglas-Home ranks 33. Before him are Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Lana Turner, Souphanouvong, Donald Pleasence, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Selena. After him are John B. Calhoun, Edda Mussolini, Edward Bernays, Hugo Pratt, Fred Perry, and Ginger Rogers.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Alec Douglas-Home ranks 703 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Adams (1966), Helena Bonham Carter (1966), Jane Seymour (1951), Edgar Wallace (1875), Norman Angell (1872), and Joan Collins (1933). After him are W. T. Stead (1849), Stanley Baldwin (1867), Kenneth Branagh (1960), William John Swainson (1789), John Cockcroft (1897), and Bartholomew Roberts (1682).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Alec Douglas-Home ranks 141. Before him are Thomas Fairfax (1612), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532), Tristan (535), Anne Neville (1456), and Norman Angell (1872). After him are Stanley Baldwin (1867), Margaret Douglas (1515), Oswald Mosley (1896), Henry the Young King (1155), James III of Scotland (1451), and Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770).

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