Andrew Douglas-Home
Andrew
Douglas-Home (Born 14 May 1950) was honoured with an OBE in this
year's New Year’s honours list for services to fishing and Scottish
heritage, recognising his long involvement with two of the biggest
visitor draws in the Scottish Borders, the River Tweed and
Abbotsford House.
Mr Douglas-Home, frMr Douglas-Home, from Coldstream, has been
recognised for his three decades’ service with the River Tweed
Commissioners – from which he recently stood down as chairman after
eight years – together with the Tweed Foundation, as well as his
role with the Abbotsford Trust.
He remains a commissioner and
has seen much change along the river since 1983, when he first
joined.
As a trustee of the Abbotsford Trust, Mr Douglas-Home
is involved with the multi-million pound renovation project
currently underway at Abbotsford House former home of the novelist,
Sir Walter Scott.
Mr Douglas-Home was one of the three
executors of the estate of the late Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott, who
along with her sister, the late Mrs Patricia Maxwell-Scott, were
direct descendants of the novelist, and had looked after the great
house for more than half a century.
Andrew Douglas-Home was
born on 14 May 1950. He is the son of Hon. Edward Charles
Douglas-Home and Nancy Rose Straker-Smith, and grandson of Charles
Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home.
He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University, where he
played cricket.
A chartered accountant, after working for several years in London
and Edinburgh, in 1983 he established the firm of Douglas Home & Co
in Kelso, close to his family home in Coldstream.
He married
Jane Pease, daughter of Maurice Oliver Pease and Marysia Skrynska,
in 1980.
They have three children:
Richard Douglas-Home b.
4 Mar 1983
Nicholas Douglas-Home b. 1985
Freddie Douglas-Home
b. 13 Dec 1989, d. 27 Jan 1990
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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