Hon Thomas Bowes
At his marriage Thomas was using the name of his mother, who provided
the family money. When he inherited the family title he began using his
father's name Lyon as well. He was the great-great-grandfather of
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, HM the Queen Mother (or if you prefer, and since we
meet him in Charlotte Chapel at a wedding, the
great-great-great-great-great grandfather of William Duke of
Cornwall).
- Lived
- 1773-1846
- Origin
- Glamis Castle
- Father
- John Lyon (he took his wife's name on marriage), 7th Earl
of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
- Mother
- Mary Eleanor Bowes, a very rich heiress from co. Durham.
- Estate
- Glamis Castle
- Profession
- Succeeded in 1820 to Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
- Chapel connection
- 1817 (marriage)
- Married on
- 13 December 1817
- Spouse
- 1. Mary Carpenter, 2. Eliza Northcote, Marianne Cheape
- Children
- Thomas George Lyon-Bowes (1801-1834), Lord Glamis by his
first wife. His son Claude Bowes-Lyon became Earl, succeeded by Claude, who had
ten children: his youngest daughter was HM Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Sources
- Registers of Charlotte Chapel (NAS CH12/3)
- Peter Beauclerk Dewar, Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain: The
Kingdom in Scotland
19th edition (Burke's Peerage and Gentry, London
2001)
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