The Right Honourable The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne |
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Born |
Claude George Bowes-Lyon 21 July 1824 Redbourn, England |
Died | 16 February 1904 Bordighera, Italy |
(aged 79)
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) |
Parents |
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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.
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.