Talk:Mark Douglas-Home

Brief biography
Here is a google cache of a brief biography (the actual linked website isn't responding right now): http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:jsqpS_N5q_MJ:213.120.226.97/ams/displaymcmedia.asp%3FID%3D26+%22mark+douglas+home%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a. From that we learn:


 * he attended the University of Witwatersrand, where he edited the student newspaper
 * 00-05 ed The Herald
 * 94-98 dept ed, then ed, Sunday Times Scotland
 * 90-95 news ed, then assistant ed The Scotsman
 * 86-90 Scottish correspondent, The Independent
 * 80-86 reporter and astn news ed Edinburgh Evening News
 * 76-80 reporter, Sunday Express (in London)
 * 73-76 trainee, then reporter, North London Weekly Herald

Can someone add that (I've had a dozen edit conflicts already, so I've given up). I'll see what else I can dig up. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:50, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Never mind, I did it. I didn't bother with the dates. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:17, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Family
thepeerage.com lists his parents as Edward Charles Douglas-Home and Nancy Rose Straker-Smith. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:54, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

And http://www.projectscotland.co.uk/doc/supporters/boardmembers.php says his wife is a Northern Irish journalist named Colette Douglas Home, and they have two weans. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:56, 27 December 2005 (UTC)