Alec Douglas-Home

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


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Predicate Object
instanceOf British politician
Conservative Party politician
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
human
birthName Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home
burialPlace Douglas family burial ground, The Hirsel, Coldstream
causeOfDeath pneumonia
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1903-07-02
dateOfDeath 1995-10-09
educatedAt Christ Church, Oxford
Eton College
familyName Douglas-Home
fieldOfWork politics
givenName Alexander
headOfGovernmentOf United Kingdom
honorificPrefix The Right Honourable
honorificSuffix FRS
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memberOf Privy Council of the United Kingdom
monarchDuringTerm Elizabeth II
nickname Alec
notableFor serving as UK Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964
notableWork The Way the Wind Blows (memoirs)
numberOfChildren 3
officeEnd 1964-10-16
officeStart 1963-10-19
placeOfBirth London
placeOfDeath The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland
politicalParty Conservative Party (UK)
positionHeld 14th Earl of Home
4th Baron Dunglass
Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom
Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)
Leader of the House of Lords
Lord President of the Council
Lord Privy Seal
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of the House of Lords
Parliamentary Private Secretary
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Shadow Foreign Secretary
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
life peer
precededBy Harold Macmillan
religion Church of Scotland
spouse Elizabeth Alington
succeededBy Harold Wilson

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