Harcourt Johnstone minister) and Anthony Eden amongst prominent government mourners. Harcourt Johnstone Harcourt Johnstone (19 May 1895 – 1 March 1945), nicknamed Crinks, was a British Liberal Party politician. Johnstone was born in London in 1895, the son of the Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, a British diplomat, and his American wife Antoinette Pinchot. His nickname 'Crinks' is alleged to have derived from the wrinkled face he had as a baby. One of his ancestors was Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904) who was Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone. His paternal grandfather was the first Baron Derwent. Harcourt
William Douglas-Home William Douglas-Home The Hon. William Douglas-Home (3 June 1912 – 28 September 1992) was a British dramatist and politician. Douglas-Home was the third son of The 13th Earl of Home and Lady Lilian Lambton, daughter of The 4th Earl of Durham. His eldest brother was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister, 1963-64. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford where he read History. His first play, "Murder in Pupil Room", was performed by his classmates at Eton in 1926 when he was only fourteen. On 26 July 1951, he married the equally aristocratic the Hon. Rachel Brand (who