Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home
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| Cospatrick Home, 11th Earl of Home; Maria, Countess of
Home; Charles, 12th Earl of Home; Lucy, Countess of Home on
the occasion of the marriage of Lord Dunglass to Maria Grey,
13th August 1870. |
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. He served as Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs under the Duke of Wellington from 1828 to 1830.
Home was born at Dalkeith House, Midlothian (the seat of his
maternal grandfather), the son of Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home,
by Lady Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of
Buccleuch. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Home
served as an Attaché at St Petersburg from 1822 to 1823 and was with
the Foreign Office from 1823 to 1827. In 1828 he was appointed
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Duke of
Wellington's Tory administration, a post he held until 1830. He
succeeded his father in the earldom in 1841 and the following year
he was elected a Scottish Representative peer, which he remained
until 1874.
In 1875 he was created Baron Douglas, of Douglas
in the County of Lanark, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, a
revival of the title held by his wife's maternal grandfather (see
below) and which entitled him and his descendants to an automatic
seat in the House of Lords.
Lord Home married the Honourable
Lucy Elizabeth Montagu-Scott, daughter of Henry Montagu-Scott, 2nd
Baron Montagu of Boughton and the Honourable Jane Margaret Douglas,
the only daughter from the first marriage of
Archibald Douglas, 1st Baron
Douglas (a title which had become extinct in 1857).
He
assumed the additional surname of Douglas on succeeding to the
Douglas estates. The couple had several children, including William
Sholto Home (1842–1916), a Major-General in the British Army.
The Countess of Home died in May 1877, aged 71. Lord Home died
at the Hirsel, Berwickshire, in July 1881, aged 81, and was
succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son,
Charles. Home's
great-grandson Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home, was Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
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