The Earl of Home
Chairman of Coutts & Co
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David Douglas-Home was born in 1943 and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He is married with two daughters and one son. He inherited the title of the Earl of Home in 1995. Lord Home was appointed Chairman of Coutts & Co on 1 June 1999 and became Chairman of Coutts Bank (Switzerland) Ltd on 8 March 2000. |
In October 2000 he was appointed Chairman of MAN Limited, and in July 2001 he became President of the British Malaysian Society.
Lord Home joined Morgan Grenfell in 1966. In 1972, he was appointed director of Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd, (now Deutsche Securities Limited) and assumed responsibility for the International Division of the bank in 1983. He was appointed to a number of other international positions in Morgan Grenfell, becoming a director of Morgan Grenfell Group PLC in 1996 and Chairman of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group PLC in 1999.
In 1993, he was appointed Chairman of EFG PLC (name changed to Tandem Group PLC in January 1996) until retirement in 1996 and as trustee of the Grosvenor Estate and a non-executive director of Grosvenor Estate Holdings PLC.
In 1980, Lord Home was appointed by the Government as director of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation PLC, a position in which he continued until 1993. In 1986, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee for Middle East Trade, serving two three year terms until retiring in March 1992. He was appointed Member of the Export Guarantee Advisory Council, serving the statutory five year term and was the Government appointed member of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Institute serving three terms until retirement in July 1998. He was appointed member of the Offshore Industry Export Advisory Group in 1989, a nominated member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1990 and of the Advisory Board of the National Forest in 1991 (until retirement in 1994).
Lord Home is an active member in the House of Lords and was appointed Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Trade, Industry and Finance until his resignation in December 1998.
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