Elizabeth Douglas-Home
The Lady Home of the Hirsel | |
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| File:Elizabeth Douglas-Home 1963.jpg | |
| In role 18 October 1963 – 16 October 1964 | |
| Preceded by | Lady Dorothy Macmillan |
| Succeeded by | Mary Wilson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Elizabeth Hester Alington 6 November 1909 |
| Died | 13 September 1990 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4, including David |
| Parents |
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Elizabeth Hester Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel (née Alington; 6 November 1909 – 13 September 1990) was the wife of British statesman Alec Douglas-Home.
Biography
She was born Elizabeth Alington,[1] the second daughter of the Very Rev Cyril Alington[2]—headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton College respectively, 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]
She died on 13 September 1990 at the age of 80.[4] Her husband outlived her by just over five years.[5] They had been married for 53 years.
Styles of address
- Miss Elizabeth Alington (6 November 1909 – 3 October 1936)
- Lady Dunglass (her husband's courtesy title, 3 October 1936 – 11 July 1951)
- The Rt Hon The Countess of Home (11 July 1951 – 23 October 1963)
- Lady Douglas-Home (as the wife of a knight, 23 October 1963 – 24 December 1974)
- The Rt Hon The Lady Home of the Hirsel (her husband having been given a life peerage, 24 December 1974 – 13 September 1990)
References
Sources
- Blair, Cherie; Haste, Cate (2005), The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister 1955–1997, Vintage, ISBN 978-0099462026
- Card, Tim (2004). "Alington, Cyril Argentine". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30379.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) - Guinness Book of Records 1985, Guinness World Records Limited, 19 October 1984, ISBN 978-0851124193
- 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.
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