Alec Douglas-Home

The Right Honourable Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT,1 PC (2 July 1903–9 October 1995), 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964. As such, he held a series of records: He was the last member of the House of Lords to be appointed Prime Minister, the only Prime Minister to resign from the Lords and contest a by-election to enter the House of Commons and, to date, the last Prime Minister to be personally chosen by a British monarch.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home's Government, October 1963 – October 1964

For a full list of Ministerial office-holders, see Conservative Government 1957-1964.

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• Sir Alec Douglas-Home: Prime Minister
• Lord Dilhorne: Lord Chancellor
• Quintin McGarel Hogg: Lord President of the Council
• Selwyn Lloyd: Lord Privy Seal
• Reginald Maudling: Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Rab Butler: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Henry Brooke: Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Sir Keith Joseph: Minister of Housing and Local Government
• Peter Thorneycroft: Secretary of State for Defence
• Julian Amery: Minister of Civil Aviation
• Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
• Frederick James Erroll: Minister of Power
• Edward Heath: Secretary of State for Industry, Trade, and Regional Development and President of the Board of Trade
• Duncan Edwin Sandys: Secretary of State for the Colonies and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
• Sir Edward Boyle: Secretary of State for Education
• Anthony Barber: Secretary of State for Health
• John Boyd-Carpenter: Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General
• Joseph Bradshaw Godber: Minister of Labour and National Service
• Geoffrey Rippon: Minister of Public Works
• Christopher Soames: Minister of Agriculture
• Michael Noble: Secretary of State for Scotland
• Lord Blakenham: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• William Francis Deedes: Minister without Portfolio
• Lord Carrington: Minister without Portfolio, Leader of the House of Lords

Changes

• April 1964: Quintin McGarel Hogg becomes Secretary of State for Education and Science. Sir Edward Boyle leaves the Cabinet.

Notes

1 The family name and title of Home are both pronounced Hume.

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