Alec Douglas-Home
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel , styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. He is notable for being 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. During his first period as Foreign Secretary, from 1960 to 1963, he sat as a member of the House of Lords, and during his second tenure from 1970 to 1974 he sat as a member of the House of Commons.
