Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Biography and Timeline

Birth of Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home

Birth of Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home

Member of Parliament

Elected Member of Parliament for Lanark

Secretary

Appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Neville Chamberlain

Role range: 1935-1940

Under Secretary

Appointed Under Secretary at the Foreign Office

Role range: 1945-1945 – 1945-1945

Election

Loses seat at the general election

Member of Parliament

Loses seat at the general election

Member of Parliament

Wins back his seat at Lanark

Peerage

Created Earl Douglas-Holme, 14th

Secretary of State for Scotland

Appointed Minister of State at the Scottish Office

Role range: 1950-1963 – 1951-1955

Lord President

Appointed Lord President of the Council, 1st term

Role range: 1950-1963

Commonwealth

Appointed Secretary of State for the Commonwealth

Role range: 1950-1963

Secretary of State for Commonwealth

Appointed Secretary of State for the Commonwealth

Role range: 1950-1963

Lord President

Appointed Lord President of the Council, 2nd term

Role range: 1950-1963

Lord President

Appointed Lord President of the Council, 3rd term

Role range: 1950-1963

Foreign Secretary of Great Britain

Appointed Foreign Minister, 1st term

Role range: 1957-1963 – 1960-1963

NATO Nuclear Policy

Douglas-Home supports the formula assigning British Polaris forces to NATO with a national reservation

Role range: 1960-1963 – 1960-1963

Skybolt Crisis

Douglas-Home handles diplomatic pressure as Britain seeks to preserve an independent nuclear deterrent

Role range: 1960-1963 – 1960-1963

Prime Minister of Great Britain

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Member of Parliament

Elected Member of Parliament for Kinross, West Perthshire

Role range: 1957-1963

Party Leader

Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1965

Peerage

Renounces his peerage in order to sit in the Commons

Role range: 1957-1963

Prime Minister of Great Britain

Forms a Cabinet but 2 of the appointments refuse to serve in it

Role range: 1957-1963 – 1963-1964

Resignation of Maurice Harold MacMillan

At the Party Conference in Blackpool announces MacMillans decision to resign

Role range: 1957-1963

Spain takes up the question of the return of Gibraltar to the

Spain takes up the question of the return of Gibraltar to the United Nations

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Polaris Programme

Douglas-Home inherits the British Polaris programme after becoming Prime Minister

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Spain takes up the question of the return of Gibraltar to the

Spain takes up the question of the return of Gibraltar to the United Nations

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Independence of Great Britain

Malta is given independence after 73 years of British colonial rule

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Independence of Malta

Malta is given independence after 73 years of British colonial rule

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Nuclear Power

Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada test Site

Role range: 1963-1964

Economy of Great Britain

The Resale Price Maintenance is abolished

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Reform of Trade

The Resale Price Maintenance is abolished

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Resale Price Maintenance

The Resale Price Maintenance is abolished

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Independence of Great Britain

Malta is given independence after 140 years of British colonial rule

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Independence of Malta

Malta is given independence after 140 years of British colonial rule

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Reform of Navy

The Board of Admiralty is taken over by the Ministry of Defence

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Royal Navy Polaris

The Conservative Government continues planning for a Royal Navy Polaris submarine force before the 1964 election

Role range: 1963-1964 – 1963-1964

Resignation of Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home

Resigns as Party Leader of the Conservative Party

Foreign Secretary of Great Britain

Appointed Foreign Minister, 2nd term

Role range: 1970-1974 – 1970-1974

Constitution of Great Britain

Douglas-Home opend talks with Ian Smith

Role range: 1970-1974

Diplomatic Negotiations at Salisbury

Douglas-Home opens talks with Ian Smith

Role range: 1970-1974