Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home

Standard Name: Douglas-Home, Sir Alexander Frederick

Used Form: Sir Alec Douglas Home

Used Form: Sir Alec Douglas-Home

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19 October 1963

Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative) became Prime Minister when Macmillan resigned on health grounds following the Profumo scandal.

Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

491, 421

23 October 1963

The report of the Robbins Committee on Higher Education (recommending the establishment of new universities in Britain) was accepted by the new Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas Home .

Gordon, Peter et al. Education and Policy in England in the Twentieth Century. Woburn, 1991.

257, 324

Simon, Brian. Education and the Social Order, 1940-1990. Lawrence and Wishart, 1991.

222

Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.

103-4

Collini, Stefan. “HiEdBiz”. London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2003, pp. 3-9.

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