Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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Born | Claude George Lyon-Bowes 21 July 1824 Redbourn, Hertfordshire, England |
Died | 16 February 1904 Bordighera, Liguria, Italy | (aged 79)
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Children | 11 |
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Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (21 July 1824 – 16 February 1904), styled The Honourable Claude Bowes-Lyon from 1847 to 1865, was a British peer. He was the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the paternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a great-grandfather of Elizabeth II, and great-great-grandfather of Charles III.
Life
Claude Lyon-Bowes was born in Redbourn, Hertfordshire. He was the second surviving son of Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis (son of the 11th Earl), and his wife Charlotte Grimstead. His paternal grandparents were Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter. His maternal grandparents were Joseph Valentine Grimstead, of Ewood Park and Merry Hall, Ashtead, Surrey,[1] and his wife Charlotte Jane Sarah Walsh. Born Claude Lyon-Bowes, he altered the family name to Bowes-Lyon.[2]
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Marriage and family
On 28 September 1853, Claude married Frances Dora Smith (29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922). They had 11 children:[6][7]
- Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. He married Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (11 September 1862 – 23 June 1938) on 16 July 1881. They had 10 children.
- Francis Bowes-Lyon (23 February 1856 – 18 February 1948), married Lady Anne Lindsay (24 December 1858 – 15 December 1936) on 23 November 1883. They had 7 children, including Lilian Bowes Lyon.
- Ernest Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1858 – 27 December 1891), married Isobel Hester Drummond (21 May 1860 – 15 July 1945) on 23 August 1882. They had 6 children, including Ernestine Bowes-Lyon.
- Herbert Bowes-Lyon (15 August 1860 – 14 April 1897), never married.
- Maj. Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 – 5 October 1946), a major of the British Army and a tennis player. He married Alice Wiltshire (1867 – 1 March 1953) on 9 August 1893. They had 4 children.
- Lady Constance Frances Bowes-Lyon (8 October 1865 – 19 November 1951), married Robert Blackburn (27 April 1864 – 21 March 1944) on 21 December 1893. They had 4 children.
- Kenneth Bowes-Lyon (26 April 1867 – 9 January 1911), never married.
- Lady Mildred Marion Bowes-Lyon (1868 – 9 June 1897), a music composer, famous for Etelinda (an opera premiered in Florence in 1894). She married Augustus Jessup (20 June 1861 – 16 October 1925) on 1 July 1890. They had 2 children.
- Lady Maud Agnes Bowes-Lyon (12 June 1870 – 28 February 1941), never married.
- Lady Evelyn Mary Bowes-Lyon (16 July 1872 – 15 March 1876), died in infancy.
- Lieut. Col. Malcolm Bowes-Lyon (23 April 1874 – 23 August 1957), a lieutenant colonel of the British Army. He married Winifred Gurdon-Rebow (10 October 1876 – 30 May 1957) on 28 September 1907. They had a daughter.
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References
- ^ Bouchard, Brian (January 2013). "The curious case of Joseph Valentine Grimstead. A man of substance and principle". Epsom & Ewell History Explorer. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846–1931, Scots peerage: founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Volume 8, 1904
- ^ "Player profile: Claude Bowes-Lyon". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Claude Bowes-Lyon". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-88995-256-0.
- ^ Vickers, p.4
- ^ Debrett's Peerage and Titles of Courtesy. London, United Kingdom: Dean & Son. 1879. p. 583.
- ^ Anthony R. Wagner, "Some of the Sixty-four Ancestors of Her Majesty the Queen", The Genealogists' Magazine, 9(1940-46):7-13; Edward J. Davies, "Walsh of Redbourn", Genealogists’ Magazine, 30(2010–12):241-45.