Alec Douglas-Home
Overview
Order of the Thistle
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, PC (surname pronunciation; ; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), known as The Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963 and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963 to 1974, was a British
United Kingdom
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Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
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politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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from October 1963 to October 1964.
He is the last member of the House of Lords
House of Lords
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to be appointed Prime Minister.
Quotations
I suppose, when you come to think of it, he is the fourteenth Mr Wilson.
: David Butler and Gareth Butler, "Twentieth Century British Political Facts", p. 292.
: Television interview with Kenneth Harris, 21 October 1963, responding to Wilson (see below).
Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.
: D.E. Butler and Anthony King, "The British General Election of 1964", p. 147.
: Remark frequently made during the 1964 general election campaign.