Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel

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Elizabeth Hester Alington, Baroness Home of the Hirsel and formerly Countess of Home (1909-1990) was the wife of the British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.

She was born in 1909, the third daughter of the Very Revd Cyril Alington, the headmaster of Eton College and chaplain to King George V, and his wife Hon. Hester Margaret Lyttelton, CBE, daughter of George, 4th Lord Lyttelton. Lady Home was the first woman to become a fellow (governor) of Eton.

Thanks to her husband acquiring and renouncing various titles she had, according to The Guinness Book of Records (1974-90), more names successively in her lifetime than any other monogamous British woman. Her names in order were: Elizabeth Alington; The Lady Dunglass; The Countess of Home, Lady Douglas-Home and Baroness Home of the Hirsel.