Elizabeth Douglas-Home
Elizabeth Hester Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel was the wife of British politician and Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.Biography
She was born Elizabeth Alington, the second daughter of the Very Rev Cyril Alington—headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton College respectively, as well as chaplain to King George V—and his wife, Hester Margaret Lyttelton, daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton. Elizabeth was the first woman to become a fellow of Eton.
She married Alec Douglas-Home on 3 October 1936. Thanks to her husband acquiring and renouncing various titles she had, according to The Guinness Book of Records, more names successively in her lifetime than any other once-married, British-only woman.
She died on 13 September 1990 at the age of 80. Her husband outlived her by just over five years. They had been married for 53 years.
