Elizabeth Douglas-Home

The Right Honourable
The Lady Home of the Hirsel
Douglas-Home in 1963
Born
Elizabeth Hester Alington

(1909-11-06)6 November 1909
Died3 September 1990(1990-09-03) (aged 80)
Known forSpouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom (1963–64)
Spouse
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(m. 1936)​
Children4, including David, 15th Earl of Home
FatherCyril Alington

Elizabeth Hester Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel (née Alington; 6 November 1909 – 3 September 1990) was the wife of British politician and prime minister Alec Douglas-Home.

Biography

She was born Elizabeth Hester Alington, the second daughter of the Very Rev Cyril Alington—headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton College successively, as well as chaplain to King George V—and his wife, Hester Margaret Lyttelton, daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton. Elizabeth was the first woman to become a fellow (governor) of Eton.[citation needed]

She married Alec Douglas-Home on 3 October 1936. Thanks to her husband acquiring and renouncing various titles, she had, according to The Guinness Book of Records, excluding the royal family, changed her title more than any other monogamous woman having been known as: Lady Home of the Hirsel, Lady Douglas-Home, Lady Dunglass, Countess Home and Miss Elizabeth Alington.

The couple had four children:

She died on 3 September 1990 at the age of 80. Her husband outlived her by just over five years. They had been married for nearly 54 years.

References

  1. 1 2 Hurd 2004, under "Marriage and the Second World War".
  2. 1 2 3 Card 2004.
  3. ↑ McWhirter, Norris D. (1985). Guinness Book of Records (31st ed.). Guinness Superlatives. p. 90. ISBN 9780851124193.
  4. ↑ "Confirmation of birthname". RootsWeb. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Hurd 2004, under "Retirement".

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