Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home

Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home
An 1870 photo of Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home, with his wife Maria

Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home KT (April 11, 1834–April 30, 1918) was a Scottish peer .

He was born 1834 at the family home of The Hirsel near Coldstream, the son of the Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home, and known as Lord Dunglass until his father's death.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire 1879-80, then Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire from 1890.[1]

On August 18, 1870, he married Maria Grey and 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 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)
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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