Patrick Bowes-Lyon

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.

Bowes-Lyon 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 Queen Elizabeth II.

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 9 August 1893. He was, by profession, a barrister at the Inner Temple.

He and his wife Alice had four children:

1. Lt. Gavin Patrick (born 13 December 1895, killed in action November 1917)
2. Angus Patrick (born 22 October 1899, died 10 July 1923)
3. Jean Barbara (born 9 October 1904, died 7 January 1963)
4. Margaret Ann (born 14 June 1907, died 14 August 1999) married 2 June 1946 Lt. Col. Francis Arthur Philip D'Abreu (born 1 October 1904, died 6 November 1995). Had one son and two daughters: Anthony Patrick John D'Abreu (born 17 March 1946), Francesca D'Abreu (born 7 February 1948), and Anne Teresa Alice D'Abreu (born 16 February 1950, died 17 April 1995).

References

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