Charles Douglas-Home

Who was Charles Douglas-Home?

Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home KT, styled Lord Dunglass between 1881 and 1918, was a Scottish peer and the father of British Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home.

Home was the son of Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home. On 14 July 1902, he married Lady Lillian Lambton, daughter of Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham. They had seven children:

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home, later Baron Home of the Hirsel

Lady Bridget Douglas-Home

Henry Montagu Douglas-Home, married Lady Alexandra Spencer and had issue; Vera Johanson and had issue; Felicity Jonsson and had issue.

Lady Rachel Douglas-Home, married Lord William Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott and had issue.

William Douglas-Home, married Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre and had issue.

Edward Charles Douglas-Home, married Nancy Straker-Smith and had issue.

George Cospatrick Douglas-Home, killed on active service as a Pilot Officer in the RAF, unmarried.

He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1930.