Earl of Home
Earldom of Home | |
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Michael Douglas-Home, 16th Earl of Home | |
Heir presumptive | Alexander Sholto Douglas-Home |
Subsidiary titles | Lord Home Lord Dunglass Baron Douglas |
Seat(s) | The Hirsel Castlemains |
Former seat(s) | Dunglass Castle, Hume Castle, Fast Castle, Bothwell Castle |
Earl of Home (
The most famous recent holder of the title was the 14th Earl, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, better known as
The family seats are The Hirsel near Coldstream, Berwickshire, and Castlemains near Douglas, South Lanarkshire. Former seats include Douglas Castle (mostly demolished), Dunglass Castle (demolished), Tantallon Castle (ruined) and Bothwell Castle (in the care of the state).
Origins
The Earls of Home descend in the male line from Cospatric I (died after 1073), the Anglo-Danish Earl of Northumbria. His descendant William de Home (son of Sir Patrick de Greenlaw, the second son of Cospatric III, Earl of Lothian), adopted the surname following his acquisition of the lands of Home in Berwickshire during the early 13th century, through his marriage to his second cousin Ada (the daughter of Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar).[2] William's arms featured the silver lion of Dunbar but with a green field instead of a red field, in reference to his lands of Greenlaw.[3]
Lords Home (1473)
- Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home (died 1490)
- Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home (died 1506)
- Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home (died 1516)
- George Home, 4th Lord Home (died 1549)
- Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home (died 1575)
- Alexander Home, 6th Lord Home (c. 1566–1619) (created Earl of Home in 1605)
Earls of Home (1605)
- Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home (c. 1566–1619)
- James Home, 2nd Earl of Home (died 1633)
- James Home, 3rd Earl of Home (c. 1615–1666)
- Alexander Home, 4th Earl of Home (died 1674)
- James Home, 5th Earl of Home (died 1687)
- Charles Home, 6th Earl of Home (died 1706)
- Alexander Home, 7th Earl of Home (died 1720)
- William Home, 8th Earl of Home (died 1761)
- Alexander Home, 9th Earl of Home (died 1786)
- Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home (1769–1841)
- Cospatrick Alexander Home, 11th Earl of Home (1799–1881) (created Baron Douglas in 1875)
- Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home (1834–1918)
- Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home (1873–1951)
- Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home (1903–1995) (disclaimed 1963) (created Baron Home of the Hirsel in 1974)
- David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home (1943–2022)
- Michael David Alexander Douglas-Home, 16th Earl of Home(born 1987)
Present Earl
Michael David Alexander Douglas-Home, 16th Earl of Home, was born on 30 November 1987, the only son of the 15th Earl and his wife Jane Margaret Williams-Wynne. He has two older sisters, Lady Iona Katherine (born 1980) and Lady Mary Elizabeth (born 1982), and was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II from 1997 to 2000.[4]
Styled as Lord Dunglass between 1995 and 2022, in 2017 he married Sally Antoinette Underhill, a daughter of Group Captain Gregory B. P. Underhill.[5] On 22 August 2022 he succeeded to the peerages and to the estate of The Hirsel.[6]
There is no heir apparent. The heir presumptive is the present earl's second cousin, Alexander Sholto Douglas-Home (born 1962), a great-grandson of the 13th earl.[4]
Line of succession, simplified
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There are further male descendants of the younger sons of the 13th Earl in the line of succession. |
Arms
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See also
References
This article needs additional citations for verification. (September 2014) |
- ^ "No. 43143". The London Gazette. 25 October 1963. p. 8770.
- ^ Nisbet, Alexander (1816). A System of Heraldry. William Blackwood. p. 270.
- ^ Nisbet, Alexander (1816). A System of Heraldry. William Blackwood. p. 270.
- ^ a b Burke's Peerage, volume 2 (2003), p. 1948
- ^ ”Miss S. A. Underhill and Lord Dunglass” in Engagements, The Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2016
- ^ The Earl of Home, obituary, The Times, 5 September 2022, accessed 7 January 2023 (subscription required)
- ^ ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1.
- ISBN 2-940085-02-1.
- ^ Hesilrige 1921, p. 483.
Works cited
- Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A, )
- Mosley, Charles (editor). (1999). Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th edition
- Charles Kidd & David Williamson, editors. (2003). Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage. Macmillan, London [page needed]