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	Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Baron Home of the Hirsel Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel , 1903-95, British politician. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1931 as a Conservative. As parliamentary private secretary (1937-39) to Neville Chamberlain , he supported the latter's policy of... Read more
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