Elizabeth Hester Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel (; 6 November 1909 – 3 September 1990) was the wife of British politician and prime minister

Alec Douglas-Home Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and being The 14th Earl of Home from 1951 till 1963, was a British Conservative politician who se ...

Biography

She was born Elizabeth Hester Alington, the second daughter of the Very Rev

Cyril Alington Cyril Argentine Alington (22 October 1872 – 16 May 1955) was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and author. He was successively the headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He also served as chaplain to King George V and as De ...

—headmaster of

Shrewsbury School Shrewsbury School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury. Founded in 1552 by Edward VI by Royal Charter, it was originally a boarding school for boys; girls have been admitted into the ...

and

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

successively, as well as

chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...

King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Que ...

—and his wife, Hester Margaret Lyttelton, daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton. Elizabeth was the first woman to become a fellow (governor) of Eton. She married

on 3 October 1936. Thanks to her husband acquiring and renouncing various titles, she had, according to '' The Guinness Book of Records'', more names successively in her lifetime than any other once-married, British-only woman. The couple had four children: * Lady (Lavinia) Caroline Douglas-Home DL (b. 11 Oct 1937), who served as a Lady-in-Waiting to various members of the Royal Family * Lady Meriel Kathleen Douglas-Home (b. 27 Nov 1939), m. Adrian Darby, Bursar of Keble College, Oxford * Lady Diana Lucy Douglas-Home (b. 18 Dec 1940), m. James Wolfe Murray *

David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home, (; 20 November 1943 – 22 August 2022) was a British banker and hereditary peer. He was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1996 until his death in 2022. Background an ...

(20 Nov 1943-22 Aug 2022). She died on 3 September 1990 at the age of 80. Her husband outlived her by just over five years. They had been married for 53 years.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Douglas-Home, Elizabeth 1909 births 1990 deaths Spouses of prime ministers of the United Kingdom Home of the Hirsel

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