Patrick Bowes-Lyon

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Patrick Bowes-Lyon (born on 5 March 1863 in Belgravia, Middlesex – 5 October 1946 in Westerham, Kent) was a British male tennis player and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the mother of Elizabeth II. He was Scottish tennis champion in 1885, 1886 and 1888. In 1887 he and Herbert Wilberforce won the doubles in Wimbledon. 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 the Queen.

He was the fifth of the seven sons and the eleven children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and of Frances Dora Smith. He married Alice Wiltshire, the daughter of George Wiltshire, on August 9, 1893. He was, by profession, a barrister at the Inner Temple.

He and his wife Alice had four children:
Lt. Gavin Patrick (born 13 December 1895, killed in action November 1917)
Angus Patrick (born 22 October 1899, died 10 July 1923)
Jean Barbara (born 9 October 1904, died 7 January 1963)
Margaret Ann (born 14 June 1907, died 14 August 1999) maried 2 June 1946 Lt. Col. Francis Arthur Philip D'Abreu

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The Plantagenet Roll of The Blood Royal: The Clarence Volume, Containing the Descendants of George, Duke of Clarence by (Melville Henry de Massue) Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, p 83, c) 1905.

The Peerage.com