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Strathmore, then Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, married Mary Pamela McCorquodale (born 31 May 1932) at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 10 April 1956 in a ceremony attended by his cousin, the Queen. [3] They had three children: Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (7 June 1957 – 27 February 2016) [4]
Born on 18 March 1918 in Teesdale, County Durham, he was the second son and third child of Patrick, Lord Glamis, and Lady Dorothy Osborne (1888–1946).His paternal grandparents were Claude, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, and his maternal grandfather was George, 10th Duke of Leeds.
Strathmore was born on 18 June 1986 into the Bowes-Lyon family. [2] His father, Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was a politician, soldier, and businessman, as well as a hereditary peer. [3] His mother is Isobel Weatherall, daughter of Captain Anthony Edward Weatherall. He attended Sunningdale School. [4]
Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th and 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, DL (7 June 1957 – 27 February 2016), styled Lord Glamis between 1972 and 1987, also known as Mikey Strathmore, was a British Conservative politician, Scots Guards officer and stockbroker. He was a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.
Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from 1865 to 1904, was a British peer and landowner who was the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne: Charles Lyon c. 1699 –1728 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne: James Lyon c. 1702 –1735 7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne: Thomas Lyon 1704–1753 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne: John Bowes 1737–1776 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne: Baron Bowes (second creation), 1815: John Bowes 1769 ...
Lady Strathmore suffered a heart attack in April 1938 during the wedding of her granddaughter, Anne Bowes-Lyon (later Princess of Denmark), to Viscount Anson. [10] She died 8 weeks later at 38 Cumberland Mansions, near Bryanston Square in London, at the age of 75. Lady Strathmore outlived four of her ten children.
Bowes-Lyon also played cricket, [3] making four appearances in first-class cricket, appearing three times for the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1843 and 1846, and once for the Gentlemen of England in 1846. [4] In 1865 he succeeded his elder brother Thomas. The Canadian Pacific Railway named Strathmore, Alberta in his honour in 1884. [5]