Alec Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home      (politician, deep politician)
Born	Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home 1903-07-02 28 South Street, Mayfair, London, England
Died	1995-10-09 (Age 92) Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland
Alma mater	Christ Church (Oxford)
Religion	Scottish Episcopal Church
Parents	• Charles Douglas-Home • 13th Earl of Home • Lady Lillian Lambton
Children	• Caroline Meriel • Diana • David
Spouse	Elizabeth Alington
Member of	Bilderberg/Steering committee, The Other Club
Party	Conservative
Member of the House of Lords  In office 24 December 1974 - 9 October 1995  Foreign Secretary In office 20 June 1970 - 4 March 1974 Preceded by Michael Stewart Succeeded by James Callaghan  Shadow Foreign Secretary  In office 13 April 1966 - 18 June 1970 Preceded by Christopher Soames  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom In office 19 October 1963 - 16 October 1964 Succeeded by Harold Wilson  Leader of the Opposition  In office 16 October 1964 - 28 July 1965  Leader of the Conservative Party  In office 18 October 1963 - 28 July 1965 Preceded by Harold Macmillan Succeeded by Edward Heath  Foreign Secretary In office 27 July 1960 - 18 October 1963  Lord President of the Council In office 14 October 1959 - 27 July 1960 Preceded by Quintin Hogg Succeeded by Quintin Hogg  Lord President of the Council In office 29 March 1957 - 17 September 1957 Succeeded by Quintin Hogg  Leader of the House of Lords  In office 29 March 1957 - 27 July 1960 Succeeded by Quintin Hogg  Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations  In office 7 April 1955 - 27 July 1960 Succeeded by Duncan Sandys  Member of Parliament for Kinross and Western Perthshire In office 7 November 1963 - 10 October 1974  Member of the House of Lords  In office 11 July 1951 - 23 October 1963  Member of Parliament for Lanark In office 23 February 1950 - 25 October 1951  Member of Parliament for Lanark In office 27 October 1931 - 5 July 1945

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995) was a UK Conservative Party politician who served as UK Prime Minister from October 1963 (the month before US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated) to October 1964.

Douglas-Home's first term as Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from 27 July 1960 to 18 October 1963 straddled the death in mysterious circumstances of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in September 1961. And his second stint as Foreign Secretary under Edward Heath from 20 June 1970 to 4 March 1974 saw Britain's entry to the EEC in 1973.

Bilderberg

Lord Douglas-Home was the second chairman of the Bilderberg conferences from 1977 to 1980. He was succeeded in this role by Walter Scheel.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1977	22 April 1977	24 April 1977	United Kingdom Imperial Hotel Torquay	The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England.
Bilderberg/1978	21 April 1978	23 April 1978	US New Jersey Princeton University	The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US
Bilderberg/1979	27 April 1979	29 April 1979	Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf	27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria
Bilderberg/1980	18 April 1980	20 April 1980	Germany Aachen	The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror
Bilderberg/1986	25 April 1986	27 April 1986	Scotland Gleneagles Hotel	The 34th Bilderberg, 109 participants

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Rossing File:The Inside Story of Britain's Secret Contract for Namibian Uranium	pamphlet	1980	Alun Roberts	Scandal in the 1970s and 1980s of collusion by successive British governments with the mining conglomerate Rio Tinto to import yellowcake from the Rössing Uranium Mine in Namibia (illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa) in defiance of international law, and leading to the targeting of UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.

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