Major Patrick Bowes-Lyon

Birthplace given in all available census returns - Nowhere can I find evidence that he was born at Glamis Castle. CJB

• 1871 - London - RG10; Piece: 131; Folio: 20; Page: 34; GSU roll: 823289
• 1891 - Rutland Gate, London - Class: RG12; Piece: 761; Folio: 19; Page: 31 Visitor in Hastings
• 1901 - South Kensington, London - Class: RG13; Piece: 35; Folio: 103; Page: 45
• 1911 - London - RG14; Piece: 4549; Schedule Number: 66
  

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Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 in Belgravia, Middlesex – 5 October 1946 in Westerham, Kent) was a British tennis player, barrister and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of 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 9th. August 1893. (less)

He and his wife Alice had four children:

1. Lt. Gavin Patrick (13 December 1895 – November 1917) killed in action
2. Angus Patrick (22 October 1899 – 10 July 1923)
3. Jean Barbara (9 October 1904 –7 January 1963)
4. Margaret Ann (14 June 1907 – 14 August 1999) married 2 June 1946 Lt. Col. Francis Arthur Philip D'Abreu (1 October 1904 – 6 November 1995).

• First Name: P
• Surname: Bowes-Lyon
• Nationality: British
• Information: Attached
• Rank: Major
• Service: British Army
• Regiment: Essex Regiment
• Battalion: 1st and 2nd Battalion (Regular)
• Seniority Date: 24/05/1916
• Collection: UK Army List 1918 at https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk (subscription needed)