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Hace 19 horas · Early life and education Douglas-Home was born on 2 July 1903 at 28 South Street in Mayfair, London, the first of seven children of Lord Dunglass (the eldest son of the 12th Earl of Home) and of his wife, the Lady Lilian Lambton (daughter of the 4th Earl of Durham). The boy's first name was customarily abbreviated to "Alec". Among the couple's younger children was the playwright William ...
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Hace 2 días · But the same challenge to Macmillan’s successor, Alec Douglas-Home, produced a firm no. Home, aware of his lack of screen charisma noted: “I saw the Nixon-Kennedy confrontation.
Hace 2 días · Sir Alec Douglas-Home had succeeded Harold Macmillan as prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party in October 1963. Macmillan’s government had been badly rocked by the sensational political sex scandal involving the Secretary of State for War John Profumo.
Hace 19 horas · Personalities such as William Ewart Gladstone, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Archibald Primrose, Arthur Balfour, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, David Cameron, or Boris Johnson studied ...
Hace 1 día · Labour leader Harold Wilson and Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home were approached in 1964 but the debate didn't materialise.
Hace 2 días · In 1964 Labour's Harold Wilson challenged Alec Douglas-Home. No, said the Tory prime minister, it would be like "Top of the Pops". But in 1970 prime minister Wilson said no to Edward Heath. In 1979, a struggling James Callaghan, who looked to be on his way out, challenged Tory leader Margaret Thatcher.
Hace 2 días · The idea of a televised election debate was first mooted in the United Kingdom 60 years ago, when Harold Wilson challenged the then-prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home, to lock horns ahead of the ...
