Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (21 July 182416 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

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, and great-great-grandfather of

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Life

He was born in

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, 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 Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (3 May 177327 August 1846) was a Scottish nobleman and peer. He was the third son of John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorn ...

, and his first wife Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter. His maternal grandparents were Joseph Valentine Grimstead, of Ewood Park and Merry Hall,

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, Surrey, and his wife Charlotte Jane Sarah Walsh. Born Claude Lyon-Bowes, he altered the family name to Bowes-Lyon. Bowes-Lyon also played

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, making four appearances in

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, appearing three times for the

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between 1843 and 1846, and once for the

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in 1846. In 1865 he succeeded his elder brother

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. 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. He died in

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, 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

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Marriage and family

On 28 September 1853, Claude married

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(29 July 18325 February 1922). They had 11 children:Vickers, p.4 *

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from 1865 to 1904, was a British peer and landowner who was the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, t ...

(14 March 18557 November 1944), the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. He married

Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (' Cavendish-Bentinck; 11 September 1862 – 23 June 1938) was the mother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, maternal grandmother and godmother of Queen Elizabeth II, and great- ...

(11 September 186223 June 1938) on 16 July 1881. They had 10 children. * Francis Bowes-Lyon (23 February 185618 February 1948), married

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(24 December 185815 December 1936) on 23 November 1883. They had 7 children. * Ernest Bowes-Lyon (4 August 185827 December 1891), married Isobel Hester Drummond (21 May 186015 July 1945) on 23 August 1882. They had 6 children. * Herbert Bowes-Lyon (15 August 186014 April 1897), never married. *

Patrick Bowes-Lyon 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 Scottish Championships in 1885, 1886 and 1888, he won the doubles ...

(5 March 18635 October 1946), a major of the

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and a tennis player. He married Alice Wiltshire (18671 March 1953) on 9 August 1893. They had 4 children. * Lady Constance Frances Bowes-Lyon (8 October 186519 November 1951), married Robert Blackburn (27 April 186421 March 1944) on 21 December 1893. They had 4 children. * Kenneth Bowes-Lyon (26 April 18679 January 1911), never married. * Lady Mildred Marion Bowes-Lyon (18689 June 1897), a music composer, famous for Etelinda (an opera premiered in

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in 1894). She married Augustus Jessup (20 June 186116 October 1925) on 1 July 1890. They had 2 children. * Lady Maud Agnes Bowes-Lyon (12 June 187028 February 1941), never married. * Lady Evelyn Mary Bowes-Lyon (16 July 187215 March 1876), died in infancy. * Maj. Malcolm Bowes-Lyon (23 April 187423 August 1957), a lieutenant colonel of the British Army. He married Winifred Gurdon-Rebow (10 October 187630 May 1957) on 28 September 1907. They had a daughter.

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