Home of the Hirsel

/ ˈhɜːsəl; hjuːm /

noun

1. Home of the Hirsel, Baron19031995MBritishPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister Baron, title of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, formerly 14th Earl of Home. 1903–95, British Conservative statesman: he renounced his earldom to become prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1963–64); foreign secretary (1970–74)

Example Sentences

His portrait of Lord Home of the Hirsel was particularly apposite, with the former prime minister's elongated figure strategically placed at the edge of the canvas – the epitome of aristocratic diffidence.

From The Guardian

Lord Home of the Hirsel, the former Prime Minister of Britain, tells of a conversation about sporting guns with Mrs. Gromyko.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Border Reflections, he recounts his private life as Lord Home of the Hirsel, the gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water.

From Time Magazine Archive