Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home (1873 - 1951)

Born 29 Dec 1873 in The Hirsel, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Lillian (Lambton) Douglas-Home — married 14 Jul 1902 in London, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 11 Jul 1951 at age 77 in The Hirsel, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profile manager: Alan Chisholm [send private message]

Charles Douglas-Home is a member of Clan Home.

Charles Douglas-Home was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home, was a United Kingdom peer and banker.

He was born on 29 December 1873 at the Hirsel, near Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland (United Kingdom). The Hirsel is a "Category A listed" stately home in the Scottish Borders. ^{[1] [2]}

He was the only son of Charles Douglas-Home, the 12th Earl of Home, and his wife Maria (Grey), Countess of Home, the daughter of Charles Conrad Grey and Caroline (Macan) Grey.

Styled Lord Dunglass, he was educated at Eton College, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom), and at Christ Church, Oxford, England. He subsequently served as an officer in the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the Cameronians, a rifle regiment of the British Army. He served in the First World War, taking part in the Gallipoli Campaign, and was mentioned in dispatches for meritorious action. He became an honorary Colonel in the Lancashire Yeomanry and was awarded the Territorial Declaration.

He succeeded to his father's earldom and subsidiary titles on 30 April 1918. He inherited extensive property and estates from his father, including Douglas Castle, Bothwell Castle, the Hirsel and lands (totalling some 107,000 acres in 1878) chiefly in Lanarkshire, Roxburghshire and Berwickshire.

He was the Governor of the British Linen Bank from 1930 to 1947. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Glasgow and Berwickshire, and was a Captain of the Royal Company of Archers. He was invested as a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1930.

He held the office of Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1930 until his death. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Law by the University of Glasgow. He died at the Hirsel on 11 July 1951.

Marriage

Charles Douglas-Home married Lillian Lambton, daughter of Frederick Lambton and Beatrix (Bulteel) Lambton, on 14 July 1902 in London, England. The couple had seven children:

Children

• 1. Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home, later Baron Home of the Hirsel (1903–1995); Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1963-64
• 2. Lady Bridget Douglas-Home (4 May 1905 – 1980)
• 3. Henry Montagu Douglas-Home (1907–1980), married (1) Lady Alexandra Spencer (daughter of the 6th Earl Spencer) and had issue, including journalist Charles Douglas-Home; (2) Vera Johanson and had issue; (3) Felicity Jonsson and had issue.
• 4. Lady Rachel Douglas-Home (10 April 1910 – 4 April 1996), married Lord William Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott and had issue.
• 5. William Douglas-Home (1912–1992), married Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, and had issue.
• 6. Edward Charles Douglas-Home (1 March 1920 – 17 February 2006), married Nancy Straker-Smith and had issue.
• 7. George Cospatrick Douglas-Home (1922–14 June 1943), killed on active service as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, unmarried.

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: The Hirsel.
2. ↑ Wikipedia: List of Category A listed buildings in the Scottish Borders.

• The Peerage, by Darryl Lundy. http://www.thepeerage.com/p10518.htm#i105176

• Cracrofts Peerage. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/home1604.htm

• Wikipedia: Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home.

Acknowledgements

First-hand information as remembered by Sir William Arbuthnot, Saturday, February 7, 2015.

More Genealogy Tools