Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home
 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.
He was Aide-de-Camp to HM Queen Victoria between 1887 and 1897.
He was a Captain of the Royal Company of Archers and f Honorary
Colonel of the 3rd and 4th Battalions, Scottish Rifles and
Lanarkshire Yeomanry.
He was invested as a Knight, Order of
the Thistle (K.T.) in 1899 and was awarded the Territorial
Decoration (T.D.).
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)
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