Home of the Hirsel

British

/ ˈhɜːsəl, hjuːm /

noun

Baron, title of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, formerly 14th Earl of Home. 1903–95, British Conservative statesman: he renounced his earldom to become prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1963–64); foreign secretary (1970–74)

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His portrait of Lord Home of the Hirsel was particularly apposite, with the former prime minister's elongated figure strategically placed at the edge of the canvas – the epitome of aristocratic diffidence.

From The Guardian

Lord Home of the Hirsel, the former Prime Minister of Britain, tells of a conversation about sporting guns with Mrs. Gromyko.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Border Reflections, he recounts his private life as Lord Home of the Hirsel, the gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water.

From Time Magazine Archive

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