Editing Alec Douglas-Home (section)

==Personal life==
In 1936 Douglas-Home married [[Elizabeth Alington]]; her father, [[Cyril Alington]], had been Douglas' headmaster at Eton, and was from 1933 [[Dean of Durham]]. The service was at [[Durham Cathedral]], conducted by Alington together with [[William Temple (bishop)|William Temple]], [[Archbishop of York]] and [[Hensley Henson]], [[Bishop of Durham]].<ref name="times36">{{Cite news |date=5 October 1936 |title=Marriages&nbsp;– Lord Dunglass, M.P. and Miss E. H. Alington |work=The Times |page=15}}</ref> In addition to the large number of aristocratic guests, the household and estate staffs of the Douglas-Home properties at [[Douglas Castle]] and [[the Hirsel]] were invited.<ref name=times36/> There were four children of the marriage: Caroline, Meriel, Diana and [[David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home|David]].<ref name="timesobit">{{Cite news |date=10 October 1995 |title=Lord Home of the Hirsel&nbsp;– Obituary |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:LTIB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0F9248688DDA9194&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA |work=The Times |via=newsbank.com{{Page needed|date=October 2023}}}}</ref> The latter was Home's heir, who became the 15th Earl of Home in 1995.{{Efn|Douglas-Home's biographer D. R. Thorpe notes that during the passage through Parliament of the Peerage Act 1963, the draft legislation originally provided that a disclaimed peerage would lapse permanently, rather than merely for the lifetime of the disclaimant. Thorpe observes that if this provision had remained a condition of disclaiming his earldom in 1963, thus preventing his son from inheriting the title in due course, Home would not have gone ahead and would not have become Prime Minister.<ref>Thorpe (1997), p. 260</ref>|group=n}}

Douglas-Home died at the Hirsel in October 1995 when he was 92, four months after the death of his parliamentary opponent [[Harold Wilson]]. Home was buried in Lennel churchyard, Coldstream.{{Sfnp|ps=none|Thorpe|1997|pp=463–464}}