Elizabeth Douglas-Home

The Right Honourable
The Lady Home of the Hirsel
The Right Honourable The Lady Home of the Hirsel
	As the Countess of Home in Holland, 1963
Born	Elizabeth Hester Alington; 6 November 1909
Died	3 September 1990 (aged 80)
Nationality	British
Known for	Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom (1963–64)
Spouse	Alec Douglas-Home (m. 1936)
Children	4, including David, 15th Earl of Home
Parent	Cyril Alington (father);

Elizabeth Hester Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel (née Alington; 6 November 1909 – 3 September 1990) was the wife of British politician and prime minister Alec Douglas-Home.

Biography

She was born Elizabeth Hester Alington,^[1] the second daughter of the Very Rev Cyril Alington^[2]—headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton College successively, as well as chaplain to King George V^[2]—and his wife, Hester Margaret Lyttelton, daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton.^[2] Elizabeth was the first woman to become a fellow (governor) of Eton.^{[citation needed]}

She married Alec Douglas-Home on 3 October 1936.^[1] Thanks to her husband acquiring and renouncing various titles, she had, according to The Guinness Book of Records, more names successively in her lifetime than any other once-married, British-only woman.^[3]^{[page needed]}

The couple had four children:

Lady (Lavinia) Caroline Douglas-Home DL (b. 11 Oct 1937), who served as a Lady-in-Waiting to various members of the Royal Family
Lady Meriel Kathleen Douglas-Home (b. 27 Nov 1939), m. Adrian Darby, Bursar of Keble College, Oxford
Lady Diana Lucy Douglas-Home (b. 18 Dec 1940), m. James Wolfe Murray
David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home (20 Nov 1943–22 Aug 2022).

She died on 3 September 1990 at the age of 80.^[4] Her husband outlived her by just over five years.^[5] They had been married for nearly 54 years.

References

^ ^a ^b Hurd 2004, under "Marriage and the Second World War".
^ ^a ^b ^c Card 2004.
^ Guinness Book of Records 1985.
^ "Confirmation of birthname". RootsWeb. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
^ Hurd 2004, under "Retirement".

Bibliography

Blair, Cherie; Cate Haste (2005). The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister 1955–1997. Vintage. ISBN 978-0-09-946202-6.
Card, Tim (2004). "Alington, Cyril Argentine". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30379. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Guinness Book of Records 1985. Guinness World Records Limited (published 19 October 1984). 1985. ISBN 978-0-85112-419-3.
Hurd, Douglas (2004). "Home, Alexander Frederick [Alec] Douglas-, fourteenth earl of Home and Baron Home of the Hirsel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.

External links

Media related to Elizabeth Douglas-Home at Wikimedia Commons
Portraits of Elizabeth Douglas-Home at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Unofficial roles
Preceded by Dorothy Macmillan	Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1963–1964	Succeeded by Mary Wilson

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[FOOTNOTEHurd2004under_"Marriage_and_the_Second_World_War"-1] Hurd 2004, under "Marriage and the Second World War".

[FOOTNOTECard2004-2] Card 2004.

[FOOTNOTE''Guinness_Book_of_Records_1985''-3] Guinness Book of Records 1985.

[4] "Confirmation of birthname". RootsWeb. Retrieved 2 April 2016.

[FOOTNOTEHurd2004under_"Retirement"-5] Hurd 2004, under "Retirement".

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v t e Alec Douglas-Home
Premiership	Ministry 1964 general election
Constituencies	Lanark Kinross and Western Perthshire
Family	Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home (father) Elizabeth Douglas-Home (wife) William Douglas Home (brother) David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home (son) Charles Douglas-Home (nephew)
See also	Earl of Home The Hirsel Peerage Act 1963 1963 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election 1964 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours D'Oliveira affair

The Right Honourable The Lady Home of the Hirsel
As the Countess of Home in Holland, 1963
Born	Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909-11-06)6 November 1909
Died	3 September 1990(1990-09-03) (aged 80)
Nationality	British
Known for	Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom (1963–64)
Spouse	Alec Douglas-Home (m. 1936)
Children	4, including David, 15th Earl of Home
Parent	Cyril Alington (father)