Patrick Bowes-Lyon

Who was Patrick Bowes-Lyon?

Patrick Bowes-Lyon 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:

Lt. Gavin Patrick killed in action

Angus Patrick

Jean Barbara

Margaret Ann married 2 June 1946 Lt. Col. Francis Arthur Philip D'Abreu. Had one son and two daughters: Anthony Patrick John D'Abreu, Francesca D'Abreu, and Anne Teresa Alice D'Abreu.