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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Home
KT CVO CBE
Official portrait, 2020
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
24 September 1996 – 22 August 2022
as an elected hereditary peer
Preceded byThe 14th Earl of Home (1963)
Succeeded byThe Lord Ashcombe
Personal details
Born
David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home

(1943-11-20)20 November 1943
London, England
Died22 August 2022(2022-08-22) (aged 78)
The Hirsel, Berwickshire, Scotland
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Jane Williams-Wynn
​
(m. 1972)​
Children3
Parents
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home, KT, CVO, CBE (/ˈhjuːm/; 20 November 1943 – 22 August 2022) was a British banker and hereditary peer. He was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1996 until his death in 2022.

Background and education

Home was born in London, the only son of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the 14th Earl of Home and British prime minister and later Lord Home of the Hirsel, and Elizabeth Alington, daughter of Cyril Alington.[1] He was educated at Ludgrove School,[2] Eton College, and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

In 1963, the year his father disclaimed his earldom (and became prime minister), David discontinued the use of his courtesy title, Lord Dunglass.[3][4]

Career

Home succeeded to his father's disclaimed earldom after his death in October 1995.[1] When the hereditary peers of the House of Lords were reduced under the House of Lords Act 1999, he was elected as one of the 92 that were allowed to remain. He sat as a Conservative, having served some time on the Conservative front bench.[1]

Apart from his political career, Lord Home worked in finance. In 1974, he joined Morgan Grenfell and worked in Egypt, Hong Kong, and Thailand.[1] From 1999 to 2013, he was chairman of the private bank Coutts & Co.[1]

He was also President of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation and Chief of the Name and Arms of Home.[1]

Home was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Thistle (KT) in the 2014 New Year Honours.[5]

Personal life

Lord Home married Jane Margaret Williams-Wynne (born 20 February 1949), of the Williams-Wynn baronet family, in 1972.[1] They had three children:[6][full citation needed]

  • Lady Iona Katherine Douglas-Home (born 1980), married the Hon. James Thomas Wingfield Hewitt (b. 1979), son and heir of the 9th Viscount Lifford, on 5 April 2008. They have three sons:
    • Harry Alexander Wyldbore Hewitt (born 9 February 2010)
    • Rory David Wingfield Hewitt (born 3 February 2012)
    • Nico James Cospatrick Hewitt (born 15 May 2015)
  • Lady Mary Elizabeth Douglas-Home (born 1982), married Christopher Gurth Clothier. They have one daughter:
    • Eira Thursday Clothier (born 5 January 2013)
    • Seren Clothier
  • Michael David Alexander Douglas-Home, 16th Earl of Home (born 30 November 1987), married to Sally Underhill[7]

Death

Lord Home died from lung disease at The Hirsel on 22 August 2022, at the age of 78.[1][8] He was succeeded in the earldom by his only son, Michael.[9]

Honours and arms

Portrait by Chris McAndrew, 2018

Honours

Ribbon Description Date
Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle (KT) 31 December 2013[5][10]
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) 14 June 1997[11]
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) 31 December 1990[12]

Arms

Coat of arms of David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home
Notes
Arms of the 12th and later Earls; Order of the Thistle circlet (12th – 15th Earl).
Coronet
An Earls Coronet
Crest
1st, on a cap of maintenance proper, a lion’s head erased argent, Home -, 2nd, on a cap of maintenance proper, a salamander vert, encircled with flames of fire proper.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th grand quarters counter quartered, 1st and 4th vert, a lion rampant argent, armed and langued gules, Home; 2nd and 3rd argent, three popinjays vert, beaked and membered gules, Pepdie; over all an escutcheon or, charged with an orle azure, Luudale; 2nd and 3rd grand quarters counter-quartered, 1st azure, a lion rampant argent, armed and langued gules, crowned with an imperial crown or, Lordship of Galloway; 2nd or, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure, debruised of a ribbon sable, Abernethy ; 3rd argent, three piles gules, Lordship of Brechin; 4th or, a fesse cheeky azure and argent, surmounted of a bend sable, charged with three buckles of the field, Stewart of Bonkill; over all on an escutcheon argent, a man’s heart, ensigned with an imperial crown proper, and a chief azure, charged with three mullets of the field, Douglas.
Supporters
Two lions argent, armed and langued gules.
Motto
True to the end.[13]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Earl of Home obituary". The Times. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  2. ^ Barber, Richard (2004). The Story of Ludgrove. Oxford: Guidon Publishing for the Ludgrove School Trust. p. 100. ISBN 0-9543617-2-5.
  3. ^ "Lord Home of the Hirsel – Obituary Archived 24 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine", The Times, 10 October 1995. [moved resource?]
  4. ^ "No. 43156". The London Gazette. 12 November 1963. p. 9249.
  5. ^ a b "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 1.
  6. ^ Theroff (2007). "Descendants of King James VI & I" updated November 2007.
  7. ^ "Announcements – Engagements: Lord Dunglass and Miss S.A. Underhill". The Daily Telegraph. 27 May 2016. Archived from the original on 17 February 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  8. ^ "DOUGLAS-HOME – Deaths Announcements – Telegraph Announcements". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  9. ^ [Telegraph Obituaries] (31 August 2022). "The Earl of Home, prime minister's son who, as chairman of Coutts, became the Queen's banker – obituary". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  10. ^ "No. 27347". The Edinburgh Gazette. 31 December 2013. p. 3197.
  11. ^ "No. 54794". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1997. p. 4.
  12. ^ "No. 52382". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1990. p. 8.
  13. ^ Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A, Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 483.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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