Patrick Bowes-Lyon

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Patrick Bowes-Lyon
Country (sports)
1887
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Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 – 5 October 1946) was a British tennis player, barrister and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Career

He won the

Wimbledon alongside Herbert Wilberforce. As a younger brother of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's father, he was a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II and Herbert Bowes-Lyon
who also played tennis.

He stood as the Conservative Party candidate for Barnard Castle.

Personal life

The fifth of seven sons and one of the eleven children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and of Frances Dora Smith, he married Alice Wiltshire, daughter of George Wiltshire, on 9 August 1893.

He and his wife Alice had four children:

  1. Lt. Gavin Patrick (13 December 1895 – 27 November 1917) – killed in action in World War I; never married, no issue
  2. Angus Patrick (22 October 1899 – 10 July 1923) – committed suicide; never married, no issue
  3. Jean Barbara (9 October 1904 – 7 January 1963) – never married, no issue
  4. Margaret Ann (14 June 1907 – 14 August 1999) – married 2 June 1945 Lt. Col. Francis Arthur Philip D'Abreu (1 October 1904 – 6 November 1995). Had one son and two daughters: Anthony Patrick John D'Abreu (born 17 March 1946), Francesca D'Abreu (born 7 February 1948), and Anne Teresa Alice D'Abreu (16 February 1950 – 17 April 1995).

Besides being a British tennis player, he was also known as

Prince Albert
in 1923.

He died on 5 October 1946, aged 83. His widow died in 1953 at the age of 86.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Championship Partner Opponents Score
Win 1887 Wimbledon United Kingdom Herbert Wilberforce United Kingdom H.J. Crispe
United Kingdom E. Barratt-Smith
7–5, 6–3, 6–2
Loss 1888 Wimbledon United Kingdom Herbert Wilberforce United Kingdom Ernest Renshaw
United Kingdom William Renshaw
6–2, 6–1, 3–6, 4–6, 3–6

Notes

  1. ^ "Patrick Bowes- Lyon: Stats". tennisarchives.com. Tennis Archives. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

References

  • The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal
    : The Clarence Volume, Containing the Descendants of George, Duke of Clarence
    by (Melville Henry de Massue) Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, p 83, c) 1905.