Alec Douglas-Home - Alec Douglas-Home Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home (July 2, 1903 - October 9, 1995) was a British politician. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964. He became famous for a series of records. He was the last member of the House of Lords to be appointed Prime Minister, the only Prime Minister to resign from the Lords and contest a by-election to enter the House of Commons and the last Prime Minister actively chosen by a British monarch. The Lord Home of the Hirsel Period in Office: 19 October, 1963 - 16 October, 1964 PM Predecessor: Harold Macmillan PM Successor: Harold Wilson Date of Birth: July 2, 1903 Place of Birth: Mayfair, London Political Party: Conservative Alec.
July 2 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (†455) 1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, court vicar (†1709) 1714 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer (†1787) 1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (†1803) 1821 - Sir Charles Tupper, Father of Canadian Confederation, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (†1915) 1862 - William Henry Bragg, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1915 (†1942) 1865 - Lily Braun, writer (†1916) 1877 - Hermann Hesse, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1946 (†1962) 1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, neurologist (†1931) 1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, actor, Artistic Director of Canada's Stratford Festival, (†1971) 1903 - Olav V, King of Norway (†1991) 1903 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the UK (†1995) 1906 - Hans.
Iain Macleod - When Harold Macmillan acted to block the succession of Richard Austen Butler as his successor as party leader and prime minister, Macleod (along with Enoch Powell) refused to serve under Alec Douglas-Home. He was at one time editor of The Spectator, and the coinage of the word stagflation is attributed to him. Shortly before his death he had been appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Prime Minister Edward Heath. He left behind him an outline budget which most observers found surprisingly hard-line in its proposals for control of public spending and tax reform. Many conservative politicians of generations following Macleod recalled him as an inspirational speaker, and John Major specifically cited his example on taking office. Many believe he would have made a good leader for the party had he.
Harold Wilson - Wilson of Rievaulx Periods in Office: 16 October, 1964 - 9 June, 1970 6 March, 1974 - 5 April, 1976 PM Predecessor: Alec Douglas-Home Edward Heath PM Successor: Edward Heath James Callaghan Date of Birth: 11 March 1916 Place of Birth: Huddersfield, Yorkshire Political Party: Labour Birth and Early Life Born in Huddersfield in 1916, the same year as his great rival, Edward Heath, Wilson studied at University College, Oxford and is regarded by many as probably one of the more intellectual politicians of the century, having been a lecturer in economics before entering Parliament. He became MP for Ormskirk in 1945, and later represented Huyton, (Liverpool). Wilson won notoriety when, as President of the Board of Trade, he was one of a group of MPs who resigned from the government.
Harold Macmillan - of Stockton Period in Office: 11 January, 1957 - 19 October, 1963 PM Predecessor: Anthony Eden PM Successor: Alec Douglas-Home Date of Birth: February 10, 1894 Place of Birth: London Political Party: Conservative Nickname: Super Mac Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early life 2 Government 3 Retirement 4 External Link 5 Harold Macmillan's Government, January 1957 - October 1963 5.1 Changes Early life Harold Macmillan was born in London. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. He served with distinction in WW I, being wounded on three occasions. Elected to the House of Commons in 1924 for Stockton-on-Tees, he lost his seat in 1929 only to return in 1931. In the 1930s he was stuck on the backbenches, his leftish ideas and sharp criticism of Baldwin and Chamberlain.
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - conferred. Labour Party leader Clement Attlee held the post in the wartime coalition government led by Winston Churchill, and had general responsibility for domestic affairs, allowing Churchill to concentrate on the war. Richard Austen Butler held the post in 1962-3 under Harold Macmillan, but was passed over for the premiership in favour of Alec Douglas-Home. William Whitelaw was Margaret Thatcher's deputy from 1979-1988, a post he combined with that of Home Secretary in 1979-83 and Leader of the House of Lords after 1983. Sir Geoffrey Howe was given the title in 1989, on being removed from the post of Foreign Secretary. He resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in 1990, making a resignation speech that is widely thought to have hastened Thatcher's downfall. Thatcher's successor John Major did not appoint a Deputy.
1903 - Weiser, actress (+ 1970) February 28 - Vincente Minnelli, director (+ 1986) March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz trumpeter (+ 1931) March 11 - Lawrence Welk, Champagne musicmaker (+ 1992) March 18 - O. E. Plauen, illustrator and cartoonist (+ 1944) April 3 - Peter Huchel, lyricist and author of radio plays (+ 1981) April 6 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (+ 1962) April 6 - Doc Edgerton, MIT professor of electrical engineering (+ 1990) April 10 - Clare Boothe Luce, publisher, writer (+ 1987) April 15 - John Williams, actor (+ 1983) April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (+ 1987) May 2 - Benjamin Spock, pediatrician (+ 1998) May 3 - Bing Crosby, singer (+ 1977) May 8 - Fernandel, actor (+ 1971) May 20 - Barbara Hepworth,.
2000 - an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery. March 20 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther, is captured after gun battle that left a sheriff's deputy dead. March 26 - Presidential elections in Russia, Vladimir Putin elected President. April 1 - Japanese prime minister Obuchi Keizo suffers a stroke and falls into a coma. April 3 - Microsoft antitrust case: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. April 5 - Mori Yoshiro replaces Obuchi as prime minister of Japan. April 7 - Mars Odyssey is launched. April 22 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old Elian Gonzalez from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC ending one of.
Academy Award for Best Story - Leather Kid - Rupert Hughes 1929 None given 1930 None given 1931 The Dawn Patrol - John Saunders Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown Laughter - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart The Public Enemy - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson 1932 The Champ - Frances Marion Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William McNutt Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard What Price Hollywood - Adela St. John 1933 One Way Passage - Robert Lord The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur 1934 Manhattan Melodrama - Arthur Caesar Hide Out - Mauri Grashin The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna 1935 The Scoundrel - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart The.
Academy Award for Best Actor - the Yankees Walter Pidgeon - Mrs. Miniver Monty Woolley - The Pied Piper 1943 Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca Gary Cooper - For Whom the Bell Tolls Walter Pidgeon - Madame Curie Mickey Rooney - The Human Comedy 1944 Bing Crosby - Going My Way Charles Boyer - Gaslight Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way Cary Grant - None but the Lonely Heart Alexander Knox - Wilson 1945 Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend Bing Crosby - The Bells of St. Mary's Gene Kelly - Anchors Aweigh Gregory Peck - The Keys of the Kingdom Cornel Wilde - A Song to Remember 1946 Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives Laurence Olivier - Henry V Larry Parks - The Jolson Story Gregory Peck.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Lee Cobb - On the Waterfront Karl Malden - On the Waterfront Rod Steiger - On the Waterfront Tom Tully - The Caine Mutiny 1955 Jack Lemmon - Mister Roberts Arthur Kennedy - Trial Joe Mantell - Marty Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause Arthur O'Connell - Picnic 1956 Anthony Quinn - Lust For Life Don Murray - Bus Stop Anthony Perkins - Friendly Persuasion Micky Rooney - The Bold and the Brave Robert Stack - Written on the Wind 1957 Red Buttons - Sayonara Vittorio De Sica - A Farewell to Arms Sessue Hayakawa - The Bridge on the River Kwai Arthur Kennedy - Peyton Place Russ Tamblyn - Peyton Place 1958 Burl Ives - The Big Country Theodore Bikel - The Defiant Ones Lee Cobb - The Brothers.
Christ Church, Oxford - Church of Rome and acquired great wealth through the dissolution of the monasteries in England, as part of the re-organisation of the Church of England refounded the college as Christ Church and made it the cathedral of the recently created diocese of Oxford. Major additions have been made to the buildings through the centuries, and Wolsey's Great Quadrangle was crowned with the famous gate-tower designed by Sir Christopher Wren. The college has long been the most prestigious of the colleges of the University due to its wealth and the nobility of its undergraduates. King Charles I made the Deanery his palace and held his Parliament in the great hall during the English Civil War. Christ Church has produced 13 British prime ministers (the most recent being Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1963-1964),.
Constitutional monarchy - all cabinet memoranda, reports from British ambassadors worldwide, security service intelligence, etc. A Parliamentary Committee was told in the early 1970s that Queen Elizabeth spends three hours daily 'doing the boxes' (ie, reading state papers sent to her from all departments of state). Sir John Peck, on being appointed British ambassador to Senegal, said that when Kissing Hands (the formal name of the appointment procedure) he received a more perceptive analysis of African and Senegalese politics from Queen Elizabeth than from any government official, based on her personal experiences on state visits, briefing documents and knowledge of African leaders, experiences that desk-bound officials, no matter how theoretically knowledgeable, had never had. In the mid 1970s, for example, Queen Elizabeth's belief that contacts between a British official, Lord Grenville, and the Government.
Constitutional convention - force of law until it was signed by the British monarch as an Act of Parliament. As part of this unwritten British constitution, constitutional conventions of British constitutional law play a key role. They are rules that are observed by the various constituted parts though they are not written in any document having legal authority; there are often underlying enforcing principles that are themselves not formal and codified. None the less it is very unlikely that there would be a departure of such conventions without good reason, even if an underlying enforcing principle has been overtaken by history, as these conventions also acquire the force of custom. For instance, the convention about money bills mentioned above was once enforced by the Catch-22 fact that a government could not apply enough force.
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs - for Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: 1968-1970 - Michael Stewart, later Lord Stewart of Fulham 1970-1974 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home, formerly 14th Earl of Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel 1974-1976 - James Callaghan, later Lord Callaghan of Cardiff 1976-1977 - Anthony Crosland 1977-1979 - Dr David Owen, later Lord Owen 1979-1982 - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington 1982-1983 - Sir Francis Pym, later Lord Pym of Sandy 1983-1989 - Sir Geoffrey Howe, later Lord Howe of Aberavon 1989-1989 - John Major 1989-1995 - Douglas Hurd, later Lord Hurd of Westwell 1995-1997 - Malcolm Rifkind, later Sir Malcolm Rifkind 1997-2001 -.
Selwyn Lloyd - Eden government, but he continued to serve as Foreign Secretary under Harold Macmillan until 1960, then becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer (1960-1962). Unable to cope with Britain's economic problems in the early 60s, he was sacked from the government and returned to the backbenches, but was called back to the government in 1963 by Alec Douglas-Home, who made him Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons until the Conservative defeat in the General Election of 1964. In 1971, after the Conservatives had returned to power, Lloyd became Speaker, a position in which he continued to serve until 1976, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Selwyn-Lloyd of Wirral. He died two years later..
Richard Austen Butler - of education he was prominent in the introduction of free primary and secondary education for all, with the introduction of the Education Act of 1944. He has held several senior cabinet posts including Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951–55), Home Secretary (1957–62) and Foreign Secretary (1963-1964). He retired from Parliament in 1965, by which time he was the longest-serving member of the Commons and Father of the House and was awarded a life peerage the same year as Baron Butler of Saffron Walden. Butler deputized as prime minister for Churchill during his illness in the early 1950s, but lost the contest to succeed Anthony Eden as party leader and prime minister to Harold Macmillan in 1957. Historians have attributed this both to his having been too closely associated with the faction favouring.
Quintin McGarel Hogg - to 1963, a British Conservative politician. He was born in London in 1907, son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, and died in 2001. Educated in the traditional way, at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and embarked on an academic career, becoming a Fellow of All Souls in 1931. He had trained in law, and was called to the bar in 1932. From there it was a short step into politics, and he followed his father's example, becoming MP for Oxford in 1938 and holding the constituency until 1950. At this point, his father died, and he was obliged to give up the House of Commons to become 2nd Viscount Hailsham. He continued as a leading member of the Conservative party, becoming First Lord of the Admiralty in 1956, and.
Patrick Hillery - presidential election; the then Tánaiste, the late Brian Lenihan from Fianna Fáil (widely viewed as the certain winner), Austin Currie from Fine Gael and Mary Robinson from Labour. In May 1990, in an "on the record" interview with Jim Duffy, an honours post-graduate student researching the Irish presidency, Lenihan had confirmed that he had been one of those phoning Hillery in January 1982. He confirmed that Haughey too had made phone calls. Jim Duffy mentioned the information in a newspaper article on the history of the Irish presidency in 28 September 1990 in The Irish Times. In October 1990, Lenihan changed his story, claiming (even though he had said the opposite for eight years) that he had played "no hand, act or part" in pressurising President Hillery that night. He made.
Peerage - the Sovereign usually refers the claim to the Attorney-General, who either advises the Crown to grant the claim, if the case is a simple one, or, in the case of more complex issues, to refer the claim to the House of Lords. The Lords then normally refer the case to their Committee on Privileges, which resolves the dispute. The Crown then acts on the Lords' advice, and the dispute is at an end. Generally, a Peerage passes to the next holder only after the holder for the time being dies. However, Edward IV introduced a procedure known as a writ of acceleration. A writ of acceleration essentially enabled the eldest son of a peer to attend the House of Lords using one of his father's subsidiary titles. The title is strictly.
