Alec Douglas-Home

" After a vote in the Commons in which the government's majority fell from more than two hundred to eighty-one Chamberlain made way for Winston Churchill. Under the premierships of Winston Churchill Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan he was appointed to a series of increasingly senior posts including Leader of the House of Lords and Foreign Secretary. Without surgery he would have been unable to walk within a matter of months.

In October 1963 Macmillan was taken ill and resigned as Prime Minister. In 1940 Dunglass was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis and was immobilised for two years.