Douglas-Home

American

[duhg-luhs-hyoom] / ˈdʌg ləsˈhyum /

noun

Alexander Frederick Baron Home of the Hirsel, 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.

Douglas-Home British

/ ˈdʌɡləsˈhjuːm /

noun

Sir Alexander. See (Baron Alexander) Home of the Hirsel

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Alec Douglas-Home left Downing Street in 1964 but returned to cabinet as Edward Heath's foreign secretary in 1970.

From BBC

He served as special adviser and speechwriter to Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, who was in office from 1963 to 1964, and worked at Conservative Party headquarters.

From Washington Post

But politics beckoned and in the early 1960s he became a speech writer for then prime minister Alec Douglas-Home.

From Washington Times

But he also showed political ambitions, working as a special adviser to Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home in the 1960s and in the Conservative Party headquarters in the early 1970s before his election as a lawmaker in the constituency of Blaby in the East Midlands in 1974.

From New York Times

His newspaper columns in the 1960s sniffed at Sir Ted Heath's "stagnant mind" and dismissed Sir Alec Douglas-Home as a "bomb-happy fossil".

From BBC

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