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.

Titles from birth to death

• Alexander Douglas-Home, Esq (1903–1918)
• Lord Dunglass (1918–1931)
• Lord Dunglass, MP (1931–1945)
• Lord Dunglass (1945–1950)
• Lord Dunglass, MP (1950–1951)
• The Right Honourable Lord Dunglass, MP (1951)
• The Right Honourable The Earl of Home, PC (1951–1962)
• The Right Honourable The Earl of Home, KT, PC (1962–1963)
• The Right Honourable Sir Alexander Douglas-Home, KT, PC (1963–1974)
• The Right Honourable The Lord Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (1974–1995)