Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, the Baron Home of Hirsel (1903 - 1995), count de Home, was a British politician, preserving Prime Minister for the the United Kingdom of the October 19th 1963 with the October 16th 1964 and is twice Foreign Minister in the cabinets Macmillan and Heath.

Born on July 2nd, 1903 in Mayfair (London), it is deceased on October 9th, 1995.

Resulting from the aristocracy, he attends the college of Eton and Christ Church with Oxford.

He is elected appointed preserving of Lanark (Scotland) in 1931 under the name of Dunglass. He is private secretary of the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who practices a policy of appeasing with Adolf Hitler (agreements of Munich).

Beaten with the elections of 1945, it finds its seat in 1950 but is constrained to resign the following year because it inherits the seat his father to the House of Lords and becomes the 14th count Home.

He is Secretary of State chagé of the Commonwealth in 1955 in the ministry of Anthony Eden, title to which he adds those of leader of the House of Lords and Lord president of the Council. He was preserving member of (1931-1945, 1950-1951, 1963-1974) and the House of Lords House of Commons (1951-1963; after 1974). Then he becomes secretary of foreign affairs under Harold Macmillan in 1960.

Whereas one expected that the Deputy Prime Minister Richard Butler succeeds Macmillan, resigner in 1963 for health reason, the leaders of the conservative party propose with the Queen Elizabeth II to invite Lord Home to form the government. Home gives up its hereditary title then and is made elect appointed with the House of Commons for the head office of Kinross and county of Western Perth (Scotland).

Home loses the capacity at the time of the elections of 1964 which see the return of the members of the Labor Party under the direction of Harold Wilson who carry it with a majority much more reduced than envisaged. Home showed a British humor while answering during the electoral campaign Wilson who scoffed it to be the 14th count Home: " And then, I suppose that Mr Wilson is after only the 14th Mr Wilson".

It gives up the function of chief of the conservative party which falls to Heath in July 1965. The conservatives apply statutes then envisaging the designation of their chief by democratic mechanisms.

Professing a pro-European foreign politics, Home is again secretary of foreign affairs under Edward Heath (1970-1974). It gives up being represented with the elections of 1974. He sees himself raising with peerage and finds his seat with the House of Lords under the title of " Baron Home off the Hirsel". He was knight about the thistle.

Him an autobiography is owed: " The Way the Wind blows" (1976).

External bonds

• Biography on the site of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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