Person

Alec Douglas-Home

British prime minister in the early 1960s, associated with brief office, elite continuity, and the transition into a more modern party system.

Summary

Alec Douglas-Home was prime minister of the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.

He matters here because his short premiership marked the final phase of the old Conservative political style before the mid-1960s shift.

Useful for linking Conservative leadership, constitutional continuity, and the political transition of the early 1960s.