Originally Posted by
freddie
The Elisabeth (Elizabeth?) Countess of Home I refer to lived in the 1850's and her Father, the last Lord Douglas, died in 1856, (I think). I'll need to dust off my old clan history books and check it all out again.
You can appreciate the confusion by not putting dates as I naturally linked David Douglas-Home with his mother which led me to believe that there was a misapprehension as to facts.
She had been Countess of Home only briefly as her husband disclaimed the title to become PM but nevertheless this had been the case. She had several changes of title, firstly Miss Elizabeth Arlington, then Lady Dunglass (the courtesy title of her husband which meant he could sit in the House of Commons) then Countess of Home when he succeeded to the Peerage, then Lady Elizabeth Douglas-Home when he disclaimed his peerage and took a Knighthood and finally Lady Home of the Hirsel when he took a life peerage.
Let's see what your dusty clan books come up with now this has been cleared up. 
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