Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. He was the last British prime minister born during the Edwardian era, and the last to hold office while a member of the House of Lords, before disclaiming his peerage and taking up a seat in the House of Commons for the remainder of his premiership. His reputation, however, rests more on his two periods serving as Britain's foreign minister than on his brief premiership.