Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home

For other people named Charles Douglas-Home, see Charles Douglas-Home (disambiguation).

Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home KT (11 April 1834 – 30 April 1918), styled Lord Dunglass between 1841 and 1881, was a Scottish peer.

Home was born at the family home of The Hirsel near Coldstream, the son of the Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home. He was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1879 to 1880 and Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire from 1890 to 1915.^[1]

Lord Home married Maria Grey on 18 August 1870. They had five children:

Lady Mary Elizabeth Margaret Douglas-Home (d. 1951), married Richard Meade, Lord Gillford, eldest son of 4th Earl of Clanwilliam.
Lady Issobel Charlotte Douglas-Home (d. 1934), died unmarried.
Lady Beatrix Douglas-Home (d. 1940), married Sir Henry Dundas, 3rd Baronet.
Lady Margaret Jane Douglas-Home (d. 1955), married Reginald Walsh, 5th Baron Ormathwaite.
Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home (1873–1951)

References

^ London Gazette issue 26020 4 February 1890

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Home

Honorary titles
Preceded by The Duke of Roxburghe	Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire 1879–1880	Succeeded by The Earl of Lauderdale
Preceded by Sir Thomas Colebrooke	Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire 1890–1915	Succeeded by The Lord Newlands
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Cospatrick Douglas-Home	Earl of Home 1881–1918	Succeeded by Charles Douglas-Home

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Name	Home, Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl Of
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Date of birth	1834
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Date of death	1918
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