Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home

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Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home KT (April 11, 1834April 30, 1918) was a Scottish peer .

He was born 1834 at the family home of The Hirsel near Coldstream, the son of the Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home. On August 18, 1870, he married Maria Grey and they had five children:

  • Lady Mary Elizabeth Margaret Douglas-Home (d. 1951), married Captain Richard Meade, son of the Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam and had issue.
  • Lady Issobel Charlotte Douglas-Home (d. 1934), died unmarried.
  • Lady Beatrix Douglas-Home (d. 1940), married Henry Dundas, 3rd Baronet and had issue.
  • Lady Margaret Jane Douglas-Home (d. 1955), married the Reginald Walsh, 5th Baron Ormathwaite and had issue.
  • Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home (18731951)
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by:
Cospatrick Douglas-Home
Earl of Home
1881–1918
Succeeded by:
Charles Douglas-Home

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