Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Born Claude George Bowes-Lyon
(1824-07-21)21 July 1824
Redbourn, England
Died 16 February 1904(1904-02-16) (aged 79)
Bordighera, Italy
Title 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Predecessor Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Successor Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Spouse(s) Frances Dora Smith
(m. 1853-1904; his death)
Parent(s) Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis
Charlotte Grimstead

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (Redbourn, England 21 July 1824 – Bordighera, Italy 16 February 1904), styled The Honourable Claude Bowes-Lyon from 1847 to 1865, was a British peer.[1] He was the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

He 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 and Charlotte Jane Sarah Walsh. Born Claude Lyon-Bowes, he altered the family name to Bowes-Lyon.[2]

Bowes-Lyon also played cricket to a high level,[3] making four appearances in first-class cricket, appearing three times for the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1843–46, and once for the Gentlemen of England in 1846.[4]

Marriage and family

On 28 September 1853, Claude married Frances Dora Smith. They had 11 children:[5]

NameBirthDeathSpouse(s)Issue
Claude Bowes-Lyon14 March 18557 November 1944Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862–1938)Violet Bowes-Lyon (1882–1893)
Mary Bowes-Lyon (1883–1961)
Patrick Bowes-Lyon (1884–1949)
John Bowes-Lyon (1886–1930)
Alexander Bowes-Lyon (1887–1911)
Fergus Bowes-Lyon (1889–1915)
Rose Bowes-Lyon (1890–1967)
Michael Bowes-Lyon (1893–1953)
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth) (1900–2002)
David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961)
Francis Bowes-Lyon23 February 185618 February 1948Anne Lindsay (1858–1936)Muriel Bowes-Lyon (1884–1968)
Charles Bowes-Lyon (1885–1914)
Capt. Geoffrey Bowes-Lyon (1886–1951)
Doris Bowes-Lyon (1887–1918)
Winnifred Bowes-Lyon (1889–1968)
Capt. Ronald Bowes-Lyon (1893–1960)
Lillian Bowes-Lyon (1895–1949)
Ernest Bowes-Lyon4 August 185827 December 1891Isobel Hester Drummond (1860–1945)Capt. Hubert Bowes-Lyon (1883–1959)
Susan Bowes-Lyon (1884–1885)
Dorothea Bowes-Lyon (1886–1886)
Joan Bowes-Lyon (1888–1954)
Marjorie Bowes-Lyon (1889–1981)
Ernestine Bowes-Lyon (1891–1981)
Herbert Bowes-Lyon15 August 186014 April 1897Not marriedNo issue
Maj. Patrick Bowes-Lyon5 March 18635 October 1946Alice Wiltshire (d 1953)Lt. Gavin Bowes-Lyon (1895–1917)
Angus Bowes-Lyon (1899–1923)
Jean Bowes-Lyon (1904–1963)
Margaret Bowes-Lyon (1907–1999)
Lady Constance Bowes-Lyon186519 November 1951Robert Francis Leslie Blackburn (d 1944)Claudia Blackburn (1908–2001)
Phyllis Blackburn
Kenneth Bowes-Lyon26 April 18679 January 1911Not marriedNo issue
Mildred Marion Bowes-Lyon18689 June 1897Augustus Edward JessupNo issue
Maud Agness Bowes-Lyon187028 February 1941Not marriedNo issue
Evelyn Mary Bowes-Lyon187215 March 1876Not marriedDied young
Maj. Malcolm Bowes-Lyon23 April 187423 August 1957Winifred Gurdon-Rebow (23 April 1874 – 23 August 1957)Clodagh Pamela Bowes-Lyon (15 July 1908 – 10 May 2003)

Their eldest, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was the father of Queen Elizabeth, Queen consort of King George VI and through her, maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II; and Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 – 5 October 1946), a Major of the British Army.

In 1865 he succeeded his elder brother Thomas. In 1887 he was created Baron Bowes, of Streatlam Castle and Lunedale, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was a Scottish representative peer from 1870 until 1892, and Lord Lieutenant of Angus from 1874 until his death.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Earl of Dalhousie
Lord Lieutenant of Angus
1874–1904
Succeeded by
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghrone
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Bowes
1887–1904
Succeeded by
Claude George Bowes-Lyon
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Thomas George Lyon-Bowes
Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
1865–1904
Succeeded by
Claude George Bowes-Lyon
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