Alec Douglas-Home is described in the public record as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. Born in Mayfair, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1903. Died in 1995.
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel ( HEWM; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. He was the last prime minister to hold office while being a member of the House of Lords, before renouncing his peerage and taking up a seat in the House of Commons for the remainder of his premiership. His reputation, however, rests more on his seven years over two stints as Foreign Secretary than on his brief premiership. Alec Douglas-Home entered the House of Commons in 1931 and, within six years, became a parliamentary aide to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, witnessing the government's efforts to maintain peace through appeasement prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
Alec Douglas-Home is recorded among the figures by whom cricket is remembered, and the surviving account of that career is the basis on which the reputation rests.
Cricket is played in formats lasting from three hours to five days, and a career average across them remains the sport's most argued-over number.
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