page_title: October 1963
section_title: October 19, 1963 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1963 / October 19, 1963 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Een portret van Sir Alec Douglas-Home de nieuwe engelse premier circa 1963
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1963:
context_section_description: At 12:56 pm, an announcement was made from Buckingham Palace that the 14th Earl of Home had been formally invited by Queen Elizabeth to succeed Harold Macmillan as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  He was the first member of the nobility since (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, from 1895 to 1902) to serve as Prime Minister, and "the only man in modern times to do so without a seat in either house of Parliament", having resigned from the House of Lords to run as a candidate for a by-election to the House of Commons.  Three of Home's rivals within the Conservative Party, each of whom had aspired to the premiership, agreed to serve in his cabinet.  Deputy Prime Minister R.A. "Rab" Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, and Viscount Hailsham joined Home in order to form a government in advance of the 1964 elections.
caption: Alec Douglas-Home
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