Name Claude 13th | ||
Spouse Frances Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strath and Kinghorne (m. 1853) Parents Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis, Charlotte Lyon-Bowes, Lady Glamis Children Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strath and Kinghorne, Patrick Bowes-Lyon Siblings Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strath and Kinghorne Similar People Claude Bowes‑Lyon - 14th Earl, Cecilia Bowes‑Lyon - Countess, Fergus Bowes‑Lyon, David Bowes‑Lyon, Mary Elphinstone - Lady Elp | ||
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. 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.
Bowes-Lyon also played cricket to a high level, 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.
Marriage and family
On 28 September 1853, Claude married Frances Dora Smith. They had 11 children:
Their eldest son, 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 their fifth son, Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 – 5 October 1946), was a Major in 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.