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    Earl of Home (/ˈhjuːm/ HEWM) is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1605 for Alexander Home of that Ilk, 6th Lord Home. The Earl of...
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    Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (/ˈhjuːm/ HEWM; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home...
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    David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home, KT, CVO, CBE (/ˈhjuːm/ HEWM; 20 November 1943 – 22 August 2022) was a British banker and hereditary...
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    Labrador Retriever (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2024)
    In the 1830s, the 10th Earl of Home and his nephews, the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and Lord John Scott, imported progenitors of the breed from Newfoundland...
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  • Douglas-Home was the editor of The Times. He was first cousin of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, father of Diana, Princess of Wales. Douglas-Home attended...
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  • Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home, KT, TD (29 December 1873 – 11 July 1951), styled Lord Dunglass between 1881 and 1918, was...
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  • Alexander Ramey-Home, 10th Earl of Home (11 November 1769 – 21 October 1841), styled Lord Dunglass from 1781 to 1786, was a British politician and nobleman...
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  • Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and 6th Lord Home (c. 1566 – 5 April 1619), was a Scottish nobleman and Lord Warden-general of all the March. He succeeded...
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    Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home, KT, TD (11 April 1834 – 30 April 1918), styled Lord Dunglass between 1841 and 1881, was a British politician...
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  • This is a list of the 189 present earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It does not include extant...
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    Cospatrick Alexander Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home (27 October 1799 – 4 July 1881), styled Lord Dunglass until 1841, was a Scottish diplomat and politician...
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  • James Home, 3rd Earl of Home (died 1666) was a Scottish courtier and landowner. He was the son of Sir James Home of Whitriggs and Anne Home, daughter of George...
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    of the Stewart kings.[citation needed] The heads of the House of Douglas held the titles of the Earl of Douglas (Black Douglas) and later the Earl of...
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  • Alexander Home, 9th Earl of Home (died on 8 October 1786) was a Scottish nobleman and clergyman. Lord Home was the second surviving son of Alexander Home, 7th...
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    James Home, 2nd Earl of Home (died 1633) was a Scottish nobleman. James was the son of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and Mary, Countess of Home. Known...
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    William Home, 8th Earl of Home (1681 – 28 April 1761) was a Scottish peer and the British Governor of Gibraltar between 1757 and 1761. Lord Home was a well-known...
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    English throne. It was improved by Mary, Countess of Home and her husband, Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home, who escorted King James from Berwick to Dunglass...
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    Anglo-Celtic Earl of Northumbria. His descendant William de Home (son of Sir Patrick de Greenlaw, the second son of Cospatric III, Earl of Lothian), adopted...
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    (1906–1996), married Hon. Henry Douglas-Home (son of the 13th Earl of Home) and had issue. She was the author of A Spencer Childhood, published in 1994...
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    holders of the forfeit title Earl of Douglas and the preceding feudal barons of Douglas, South Lanarkshire. The title was created in the Peerage of Scotland...
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    The Hirsel (category Alec Douglas-Home)
    Category A Listed stately home near Coldstream, Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders council area. It has been a seat of the Earls of Home since 1611, and the...
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    1834–1846 Lord Stanley (14th Earl of Derby from 1851): 9 March 1846 – 27 February 1868*, elected at a party meeting () The Earl of Malmesbury: 1868–1869, appointed...
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    Arthur Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1919–1930) Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1930–1947) Oxford: Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1772–1792)...
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    Minister for Transport and the Earl of Home was promoted to Leader of the House of Lords and also continued as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs...
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  • a Scottish family Earl of Home, a Scottish peerage title Home (1915 film), a 1915 British silent film featuring A.V. Bramble Home, a 1919 American film...
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    surviving son of John Maitland, 2nd Lord Maitland of Thirlestane (d. 1645), (who had been created Viscount of Lauderdale in 1616, and Earl of Lauderdale...
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    James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor. A pioneer for black actors in the entertainment industry, he was known for...
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    Princess of Wales Piers Courage, Formula 1 racing driver Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home, father of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home Ranulph Fiennes...
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    capacity. For the first five days of his ministry, until he had renounced his peerage, Douglas-Home was known as the Earl of Home. Wilding & Laundy nd Part 6 –...
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  • the holders of two royal offices, the Earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain, who sit as ex officio members. The initial cohort of excepted hereditary...
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