Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home

For other people named Charles Douglas-Home, see Charles Douglas-Home (disambiguation).

Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home KT (29 December 1873 – 11 July 1951), styled Lord Dunglass between 1881 and 1918, was a Scottish peer and the father of British Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home.

Home was the son of Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home. On 14 July 1902, he married Lady Lillian Lambton, daughter of Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham. They had seven children:

• Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home, later Baron Home of the Hirsel (1903–1995)
• Lady Bridget Douglas-Home (4 May 1905 – 1980)
• Hon. Henry Montagu Douglas-Home (1907–1980), married (1) Lady Alexandra Spencer (daughter of the 6th Earl Spencer) and had issue; (2) Vera Johanson and had issue; (3) Felicity Jonsson and had issue.
• Lady Rachel Douglas-Home (10 April 1910 – 4 April 1996), married Lord William Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott and had issue.
• Hon. William Douglas-Home (1912–1992), married Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre and had issue.
• Edward Charles Douglas-Home (1 March 1920 – 17 February 2006), married Nancy Straker-Smith and had issue.
• George Cospatrick Douglas-Home (1922–14 June 1943), killed on active service as a Pilot Officer in the RAF, unmarried.

He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1930.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Home

Honorary titles
Preceded by Charles Hope	Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire 1930–1951	Succeeded by The Earl of Haddington
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Charles Douglas-Home	Earl of Home 1918–1951	Succeeded by Alexander Douglas-Home (disclaimed in 1963)