Country (sports) | |
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Born |
Belgravia, Middlesex, England |
5 March 1863
Died | 5 October 1946 Westerham, England |
(aged 83)
Singles | |
Career titles | 11 |
Grand Slam Singles results | |
Wimbledon | QF (1885) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam Doubles results | |
Wimbledon | W (1887) |
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.
Having been Scottish tennis champion in 1885, 1886 and 1888, he won the doubles at Wimbledon alongside Herbert Wilberforce. As a younger brother of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's father, he was a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
The fifth of seven sons and one of the eleven children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and of Frances Dora Smith, he married Alice Wiltshire, daughter of George Wiltshire, on 9 August 1893.
He and his wife Alice had four children: