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DIED. LORD HOME OF THE HIRSEL, 92, who, as Sir Alec Douglas-Home, was British Prime Minister from 1963 until the Conservative Party lost the 1964 elections; in Berwickshire. The Scottish patrician changed party rules to let legislators pick their leader--thus assuring he would be the last blue blood to head the Tories. He also served two stints as Foreign Secretary...
...block of ice with his pants down until he's told to get up-or lose his job." Lord Home of the Hirsel, the former Prime Minister of Britain, tells of a conversation about sporting guns with Mrs. Gromyko. She said, "If you buy a gun for my son, buy a better one than you buy for my husband, because my son lets the ducks rise off the water...
...14th Earl of Home (pronounced Hume), 76, who as Sir Alec Douglas-Home was Britain's Prime Minister in 1963-64, is also an author. In Border Reflections, he recounts his private life as Lord Home of the Hirsel, the gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water. Angular Angler Home, who has tried "every known lure from the maggot to the dryest of flies," also dotes on lore. His technique for harvesting worms, a favorite bait: "Take...
...eight months ago, at a performance of Aïda, when he first met the British Prime Minister's second daughter, and now the young Oxford economics don plans to make his name hers. The wedding date is March 30 at her family's Scottish estate, The Hirsel, in a ceremony to be attended only by relatives...
Home's wife, who was the daughter of his old headmaster but cannot remember the Earl as an Etonian, shuttles with her husband between London, The Hirsel and Dorneywood, their country home in Buckinghamshire. She knits his socks, often cooks his breakfast. She is also an accomplished hostess, and confesses: "I love politics, because we are not the worrying kind. My husband is even more of an unworrier than I am." The Homes have three grown daughters and a son, 19-year-old Lord Dunglass, who will eventually inherit his father's suspended titles-unless he too wants...