Cospatrick Home, 11th Earl of Home (1799-1881)

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 a

representative peer In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords. Until 1999, all members of the Peerage of England held the right t ...

for Scotland. During the premiership of the

Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister ...

, he served as

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from 1828 to 1830.

Background and education

Home was born at

Dalkeith House Dalkeith Palace is a country house in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. It was the seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch from 1642 until 1914, and is owned by the Buccleuch Living Heritage Trust. The present palace was built 1701–1711 on the site of th ...

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(the seat of his maternal grandfather), the son of

Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home Alexander Ramey-Home, 10th Earl of Home (11 November 1769 – 21 October 1841), styled Lord Dunglass from 1781 to 1786, was a British politician and nobleman. He served as a representative peer for Scotland between 1807 and 1841. He gained the ...

and Lady Elizabeth Scott, the daughter of

Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch and 5th Duke of Queensberry KG FRSE (2 September 174611 January 1812) was a Scottish nobleman and long-time friend of Sir Walter Scott. He is the paternal 3rd great-grandfather of Princess Alice, Duchess of G ...

. He was educated at

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniq ...

."Cospatrick Alexander Home, 11th Earl of Home"
''The Peerage'', 2 November 2012

Career

Home served as an

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St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

from 1822 to 1823 and was with the Foreign Office from 1823 to 1827. In 1828 he was appointed

in the

'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

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, which he remained until 1874. In 1875, he was created Baron Douglas, of Douglas in the County of Lanark, in the

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, a revival of the title that was held by his wife's maternal grandfather (see below) and entitled him and his descendants to an automatic seat in the

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Family

Lord Home married Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Montagu-Scott, daughter of Henry Montagu-Scott, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton and Hon. Jane Margaret Douglas, the only daughter from the first marriage of

Archibald Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas Archibald James Edward Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas (10 July 1748 – 26 December 1827), was a Scottish politician. Early life He was born Archibald James Edward Stewart, in Paris,G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. Wh ...

(a title which had become extinct in 1857 upon the death of

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). He assumed the additional surname of Douglas on succeeding to the extensive Douglas and Angus estates. The couple had several children, including William Sholto Home (1842–1916), a

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in the

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. The Countess of Home died in May 1877, aged 71. Lord Home died at the Hirsel,

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, in July 1881, aged 81, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son,

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. Home's great-grandson

Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of 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 s ...

, was

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from 1963 to 1964.

Labrador Retrievers

In the 1830s, Lord Home's father together with his cousins the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and

Lord John Scott Lord John Douglas-Montagu-Scott (13 July 1809 – 3 January 1860) was a 19th-century landlord and MP for Roxburghshire. He was the third son of the 4th Duke of Buccleuch and younger brother to the 5th Duke of Buccleuch. He inherited his residen ...

.Article written for The Field, 30 May 1896, 'Labrador Dogs', by John S Kerss were among the first to import Newfoundland dogs, or Labrador Retrievers as they later became known, for use as gundogs. The first known photograph of the breed, taken in 1856, was of Lord Home's dog "Nell".Wolters, Richard A (1974) ''The Labrador Retriever: The History...the People...Revisited'', New York, Dutton Adult,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Home, Cospatrick Alexander Douglas-Home, 11th Earl 1799 births 1881 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Earls of Home Scottish representative peers Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria