The Right Honourable
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Personal details
Born
Claude George Lyon-Bowes

(1824-07-21)21 July 1824
Redbourn, Hertfordshire, England
Died16 February 1904(1904-02-16) (aged 79)
Bordighera, Liguria, Italy
Spouse
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(m. 1853)​
Children11
Parents
  • Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis (father)
  • Charlotte Lyon-Bowes, Lady Glamis (mother)

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]

Bowes-Lyon also played cricket,[3] making four appearances in first-class cricket, appearing three times for the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1843 and 1846, and once for the Gentlemen of England in 1846.[4] In 1865 he succeeded his elder brother Thomas. The Canadian Pacific Railway named Strathmore, Alberta in his honour in 1884.[5] 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.

The Earl died in Bordighera, the Italian Riviera, in his Villa Etelinda, so named for the opera composed by his daughter Lady Mildred Marion. The villa was later sold to the Italian royal family.

Marriage and family

On 28 September 1853, Claude married Frances Dora Smith (29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922). They had 11 children:[6][7]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ "Player profile: Claude Bowes-Lyon". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  4. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Claude Bowes-Lyon". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  5. ^ Sanders, Harry Max (2003). The story behind Alberta names. Calgary: Red Deer Press. ISBN 978-0-88995-256-0.
  6. ^ Vickers, p.4
  7. ^ Debrett's Peerage and Titles of Courtesy. London, United Kingdom: Dean & Son. 1879. p. 583.
  8. ^ 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.

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Honorary titles Preceded byThe Earl of Dalhousie Lord Lieutenant of Angus 1874–1904 Succeeded byThe Earl of Strathmore and Kinghrone Peerage of the United Kingdom New creation Baron Bowes 1887–1904 Succeeded byClaude Bowes-Lyon Peerage of Scotland Preceded byThomas Lyon-Bowes Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne 1865–1904 Succeeded byClaude Bowes-Lyon
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