Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD, styled as Lord Glamis from 1865 to 1904, was a British peer and landowner. He was the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Elizabeth II. The Earl was an active member of the Territorial Army.

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Summary Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and KinghorneClaude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD, styled as Lord Glamis from 1865 to 1904, was a British peer and landowner. He was the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Elizabeth II. The Earl was an active member of the Territorial Army and served as honorary colonel of the 4th5th Battalion of the Black Watch.

He married Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck on 16 July 1881 in Petersham, Surrey. The couple had ten children. In 1923 his youngest daughter Elizabeth married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary.