Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis

Who was Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis?

Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis was an heir to the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He was the only son of Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter. He is the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

On 21 December 1820, he married Charlotte Grimstead, daughter of Joseph Valentine Grimstead, of Ewood Park and Merry Hall, and Charlotte Jane Sarah Walsh.

They had five children:

Frances Lyon, raised to the rank of an earl's daughter in 1847, married Hugh Charles Bettesworth Trevanion

Thomas Lyon-Bowes

Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II.

Charlotte Lyon

Thomas died at the age of 32 in Honfleur, France; leaving his wife - Lady Glamis - very little money to bring up their four surviving children. His eldest son, Thomas Lyon-Bowes became the heir to the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne.