Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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Claude George Bowes-Lyon, KT 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (14 March 1855–7 November 1944) was the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. He was born at Lowndes Square in London, the son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his wife, the former Frances Smith.
From 1937 Bowes-Lyon was known as "14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne," because he was the 14th Earl in the peerage of Scotland but the 1st Earl in the peerage of the United Kingdom.
Bowes-Lyon married Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck on 16 July 1881, at Petersham, and the couple had ten children:
Their ninth child, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, married the Duke of York, later King George VI, and in later life was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
In 1937, as one of the coronation peerages of King George VI, Lord Strathmore was created Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to enable him to sit in the House of Lords as an Earl (he had previously sat only as a Baron through the Barony of Bowes created for his father).
Lord Strathmore died at the age of 89 at Glamis Castle in Angus (Lady Strathmore had died in 1938). He was succeeded by his son, Patrick Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis.
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