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==External links== {{Commons category|Alec Douglas-Home}} {{Wikiquote}} * {{Hansard-contribs | sir-alec-douglas-home | Lord Home of the Hirsel}} * [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3359/3359.html Lord Dunglass (Alec Douglas-Home)] CricketArchive * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928040322/http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=600 Prime Ministers in the Post-War world: Alec Douglas-Home], lecture by [[D. R. Thorpe]] at [[Gresham College]], 24 May 2007 (available for download as an audio or video file) * {{NPG name|name=Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel}} * {{UK National Archives ID}} * {{Librivox author |id=8948}} {{Navboxes |title=Offices and distinctions |list1= {{S-start}} {{S-par|uk}} {{S-bef|before=[[Thomas Dickson (Scottish politician)|Thomas Dickson]]}} {{S-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for [[Lanark (UK Parliament constituency)|Lanark]]|years=[[1931 United Kingdom general election|1931]]β[[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945]]}} {{S-aft|after=[[Tom Steele (politician)|Tom Steele]]}} {{S-bef|before=[[Tom Steele (politician)|Tom Steele]]}} {{S-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for [[Lanark (UK Parliament constituency)|Lanark]]|years=[[1950 United Kingdom general election|1950]]β1951}} {{S-aft|after=[[Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale|Patrick Maitland]]}} {{S-bef|before=[[Gilmour Leburn]]}} {{S-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for [[Kinross and 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