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Blazon of Arms:
Shield: Quarterly: 1st and 4th grand quarters counter-quartered, 1st and 4th vert, a lion rampant argent, armed and langued gules (Home); 2nd and 3rd argent, three popinjays vert, beaked and membered gules (Pepdie of Dunglas); overall an escutcheon or, charged with an orle azure (Landale); 2nd and 3rd grand quarters counter-quartered, 1st azure, a lion rampant argent, armed and langued gules, crowned with an imperial crown or (Lordship of Galloway); 2nd or, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure, debruised of a ribbon sable (Abernethy); 3rd argent, three piles gules (Lordship of Brechin); 4th or, a fesse checky azure and argent, surmounted of a bend sable, charged with three buckles of the field (Stewart of Bonkill); overall on an escutcheon argent, a man's heart, ensigned with an imperial crown proper, and a chief azure, charged with three mullets of the field (Douglas).
SOURCE, NOTES AND CREDITS: Illustration for background and the caption’s text adapted for the entry from the Wikipedia article. Additional biographic information received from John Hamilton Gaylor for which we thank him.
The Earldome of Home is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1605 for Alexander Home of that Ilk, 6th Lord Home. The Earl of Home holds, among others, the subsidiary titles of Lord Home (created 1473) and Lord Dunglass (1605) in the Peerage of Scotland, and Baron Douglas, of Douglas in the County of Lanark (1875), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
In the 1700s the Earls of Home and the Dukes of Hamilton disputed as to which of them was in right of the Douglas inheritance. It went on for years and the cost was enormous. Hamilton was the heir male of Douglas, while Home was the heir of line – legally but historically doubtful. The ‘Douglas Cause’ gripped the nation.
The Earl is also Chief of the Name and Arms of Home and heir general to the House of Douglas. The title of Lord Dunglass is used as a courtesy title by the eldest son of the Earl.
The most famous Earl of Home was Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home (1903–1995) (disclaimed 1963) KT, PC (created Baron Home of the Hirsel in 1974)
After the unexpected resignation of Harold Macmillan, the 14th Earl was named Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch. For the first time in over sixty years, a sitting Prime Minister was a member of the House of Lords rather than of the House of Commons. Because he believed that it was impractical and unconventional to remain a member of the Lords, the Earl disclaimed his peerages on 23 October 1963 under the Peerage Act passed in the same year.
From 1970 to 1974 he was in the cabinet of Edward Heath as Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs. After the defeat of the Heath government in 1974, he returned to the House of Lords as he was created a life peer as Baron Home of the Hirsel.
Lord Home died at home at the Hirsel on 9 October 1995, age 92 in Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland
The current earl who succeeded in 2022 is Michael David Alexander Douglas-Home, 16th Earl of Home.
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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