Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne


Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th and 2nd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was a British nobleman and peer. He was an uncle of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Life

Bowes-Lyon was born on 22 September 1884 at St Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire to Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. He was an older brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and therefore an uncle of Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret. At the outbreak of World War I, he went into service with the Black Watch. On 19 June 1920, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Forfarshire.
As a maternal uncle of the bride, he was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten.

Marriage and issue

The Earl married Lady Dorothy Beatrix Godolphin Osborne, daughter of George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds, on 21 November 1908 in London. The couple had four children:
The Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne died on 18 June 1946, aged 57. Patrick Bowes-Lyon outlived her by almost three years and died on 25 May 1949 in Angus, Scotland, aged 64.

Ancestry