Rt Hon the 15th Earl of Home KT, CVO ,CBE
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(Alexander) Sholto Douglas-Home (B. 1962), great nephew of 14th Earl of Home, m.1992 Alexandra Jane Miller, sister to Joanne Miller, formerly Countess of Bradford, now Mrs Philip Porter. Their son Louis Robin b. 1999 and their daughter Tallula Elizabeth b. 2001.
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He served as his father's page at the Coronation but only inherited the earldom Sir Alec Douglas-Home had renounced on his death in 1995
The 15th Earl of Home, who has died aged 78, was the Queen’s banker as chairman of Coutts & Co, having first built an international financial career with Morgan Grenfell; he inherited the earldom disclaimed by his father on becoming prime minister as Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1963.
In his professional life, David Home embodied the traditional banking values, as one colleague put it, “of discretion, infinite care and utter integrity”. His ancient and distinguished lineage also made him ideal for Coutts, the private bank in the Strand, founded in 1692, which had for many years provided banking services to the royal family. He was its chairman from 1999 to 2013, continuing as chairman of the Swiss-based international arm until 2017....
David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, was born on November 20 1943, the only son of Alec Douglas-Home (then Lord Dunglass by courtesy) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the Very Revd Cyril Alington, who was headmaster of Eton and later Dean of Durham.
The Homes descend from William de Home, who acquired lands in Berwickshire in the 13th Century. The earldom was granted in 1605 to Alexander, 6th Lord Home, who had been in the retinue of King James VI of Scotland when he took up the throne of England. The Hirsel estate near Coldstream, which became the family’s principal seat, was acquired in 1611.
[Image of Lord Home (as page) with his father on their way to the Coronation]
At the Coronation in June 1953, Lord Home, who had succeeded his father as 14th Earl in 1951, was to be the bearer of the Sword of Spiritual Justice, one of three unsheathed swords carried point upwards in the procession — and was in need of a page to support him.
Although the official minimum age for participation in the lengthy ceremony was 12, the Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshal gave permission for nine-year-old David, now Lord Dunglass, to take part; he and other pages discovered in rehearsals that the baubles on peers’ coronets were detachable and – to the horror of courtiers – could be played with as marbles.
David was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford – where he was an undergraduate in October 1963 when his father, who had been Harold Macmillan’s foreign secretary but initially ruled himself out as a candidate for prime minister, emerged from a mysterious conclave of Conservative grandees to become Macmillan’s successor, preferred over Quentin Hailsham, Rab Butler and Reginald Maudling.
It was also agreed that he should re-enter the House of Commons at the forthcoming Kinross by-election. In order to do so, he made use of legislation recently pushed forward by the Labour MP Tony Benn (in order to shed his own inconvenient inheritance as Viscount Stansgate) which allowed Home to renounce for life his four hereditary peerages and revert, as a Knight of the Thistle, to “Sir Alec”. The Dunglass courtesy title also went into abeyance, and a porter promptly repainted the name on the door of David’s college rooms....
In 1995 he inherited the earldom – and the baronies of Home, Dunglass and Douglas – on the death of his father, who had accepted a life peerage as Lord Home of the Hirsel in 1974 after a second stint as foreign secretary under Edward Heath.
In the House of Lords the 15th Earl played an active role on the Conservative benches — and sat from 1999 as one of 92 elected hereditary peers. He was appointed CBE in 1991, CVO in 1997 and a Knight of the Thistle in 2014.
Multiple commitments in London and abroad inevitably limited Lord Home’s presence in his Scottish fiefdoms, but he strengthened the finances of his estates (at Douglas in Lanarkshire as well as the Hirsel), enjoyed the sport they provided, and was an admired and respected participant in Borders society. To the wider Douglas-Home family (his father having had six siblings) he was a fount of generosity and quiet wisdom.
He married, in 1972, Jane Williams-Wynne, who survives him with their two daughters and a son. The wedding took place at St Margaret’s Westminster and the reception, by special permission of the Queen, at the Banqueting House in Whitehall.
Their son Michael, Lord Dunglass, born in 1987, succeeds to the titles.
The Earl of Home, born November 20 1943, died August 22 2022
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Banker who lost his title when his father became prime minister but reclaimed it in later life to take his place in the Lords
When Sir Alec Douglas-Home disclaimed his peerage in 1963 to become prime minister, his son David also dropped his courtesy title, Lord Dunglass. David was a student at Oxford at the time and DR Thorpe, his father’s biographer, noted: “When the instruments of renunciation had taken effect, the porters of Christ Church punctiliously set forth to the various staircases, painting out the words ‘Lord Dunglass’ and substituting ‘The Hon David Douglas-Home’, a correct adjustment.”
...His father, who on leaving 10 Downing Street was re-ennobled with a life peerage as Baron Home of the Hirsel, had merely put the earldom into what his son called “cold storage”. After the former prime minister’s death in 1995 Douglas-Home was able to reclaim it along with a handful of other titles: Baron Home, Baron Dunglass and Baron Douglas. He also became chief of Clan Home... [Following reform of the House of Lords] Douglas-Home was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the chamber.
David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home was born in London in 1943, the youngest child and only son of Elizabeth (née Alington) and her husband Alec Douglas-Home, who had been elected to parliament in 1931 before inheriting the earldom in 1951 and who later served as foreign secretary under Harold Macmillan. He had three sisters, Caroline, Meriel and Diana, who while their father was prime minister also renounced their courtesy titles of Lady.
The Earl of Home, a title in the Scottish peerage, was created in 1605 for the sixth Lord Home (1566-1619) who two years earlier had accompanied James VI of Scotland on his accession to the English throne as James I under the Union of the Crowns. The eighth earl was governor of Gibraltar from 1757 to 1761; the ninth took holy orders; and the eleventh served as foreign affairs minister under the Duke of Wellington...
...On coronation day in 1953 the nine-year-old David was given special dispensation by the Duke of Norfolk, the earl marshal, to act as his father’s page, even though the minimum age was normally 12...
...In 1972 he had married Jane Williams-Wynne at St Margaret’s, Westminster. Their reception at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, broke new ground because it was the first time the Queen gave special permission for the venue to be used for this purpose. Jane survives him with their two daughters, Iona, who is a teacher, and Mary, who leads a private life, and their son Michael, who works in finance in Edinburgh and who succeeds in the titles...
The 15th Earl of Home KT, CVO, CBE, banker, was born on November 20, 1943. He died of pulmonary disease on August 22, 2022, aged 78
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Buckingham Palace
14th November, 2022
His
Majesty was represented by the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry KT at
the Service of Thanksgiving for the Earl of Home KT which was held at
the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2,
this afternoon.
The Queen Consort was represented by the Hon Virginia Carington.
The Princess Royal was represented by Leonora, Countess of Lichfield.
The Duke and Duchess of Kent were represented by Mr Nicolas Adamson.
Kensington Palace14th November, 2022
The
Prince of Wales was present at the Service of Thanksgiving for the Earl
of Home KT which was held at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields,
Trafalgar Square, London WC2, this afternoon.
Kensington Palace
14th November, 2022
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were present at the Service of Thanksgiving for the Earl of Home KT which was held at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2, this afternoon.
St James’s Palace
14th November, 2022
Princess
Alexandra was present at the Service of Thanksgiving for the Earl of
Home KT which was held at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields,
Trafalgar Square, London WC2, this afternoon.