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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
David 15th

Role
  
Businessman


David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home

Born
  
20 November 1943 (age 80) Westminster, LondonUnited Kingdom (
1943-11-20
)

Spouse
  
Margaret Williams (m. 1972)

Parents
  
Alec Douglas-Home, Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel

Education
  
Christ Church, Oxford, Eton College

Cousins
  
Sarah Douglas-Home, Hon. Dinah Douglas-Home

Grandparents
  
Lady Lilian Lambton, Charles Douglas-Home

Uncles
  
William Douglas-Home

David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home, (born 20 November 1943) is a British businessman and Conservative politician.

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Background and education

Home is the only son of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, formerly 14th Earl of Home and British Prime Minister and later Lord Home of the Hirsel, and Elizabeth Alington, daughter of Cyril Alington. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.

Political career

Home succeeded to his father's disclaimed earldom on his death in October 1995. 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 sits as a Conservative, having served some time on the Conservative front bench.

Apart from his political career Lord Home was, until 2013, Chairman of the private bank Coutts & Co. and remains Chairman of the Grosvenor Group. He is also the current President of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation and Chief of the Name and Arms of Home and heir general to the House of Douglas.

Home was appointed Knight Companion of the Order of the Thistle (KT) in the 2014 New Year Honours.

Family

Lord Home has been married since 1972 to Jane Margaret Williams-Wynne (20 February 1949), of the Williams-Wynn baronet family. They have three children:

  • 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 (9 February 2010)
  • Rory David Wingfield Hewitt (3 February 2012)
  • Nico James Cospatrick Hewitt (15 May 2015)
  • Lady Mary Elizabeth Douglas-Home (born 1982)
  • Michael David Alexander Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass (30 November 1987), engaged to Sally Underhill

    • Titles and styles

  • The Hon. David Douglas-Home (1943–1951)
  • Lord Dunglass (1951–1991)
  • In 1963, the year his father disclaimed his earldom (and became Prime Minister), David too discontinued the use of his courtesy title.
  • Lord Dunglass CBE (1991–1995)
  • The Rt Hon. The Earl of Home CBE (1995–1997)
  • The Rt Hon. The Earl of Home CVO CBE (1997–2013)
  • The Rt Hon. The Earl of Home KT CVO CBE (2014–)

    • Honours

  • Knight of the Thistle (2014)
  • Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1997)
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1991)

    • References

    David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home Wikipedia
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