Frances Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Frances Dora Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Spouse(s) Claude Bowes-Lyon
Father Oswald Smith
Mother Henrietta Mildred Hodgson
Born 29 July 1832
Blendon Hall
Died 5 February 1922 (aged 89)
19 Hans Place, Chelsea, London
Buried Glamis Castle, Angus

Frances Dora Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (née Smith; 29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922) was a British noblewoman. She was the paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and thus a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Her father was Oswald Smith, of Blendon Hall (7 July 1794 – 18 June 1863), and her mother was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (c. 1805–1891). Her paternal grandparents were George Smith and wife Frances Mary Mosley, daughter of Sir John Parker Mosley, 1st Baronet, and wife Elizabeth Bayley, granddaughter of Nicholas Mosley and wife Elizabeth Parker, and sister of Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, great-great-grandfather of Oswald Mosley.

On 28 September 1853, she married Claude Bowes-Lyon. He became the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne following the death of his brother Thomas in 1865. Frances then assumed the title and style of Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Together the couple had 11 children.[1]

NameBirthDeathSpouse(s)Issue
Claude Bowes-Lyon14 March 18557 November 1944Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862–1938)Violet Bowes-Lyon (1882–1893)
Mary Bowes-Lyon (1883–1961)
Patrick Bowes-Lyon (1884–1949)
John Bowes-Lyon (1886–1930)
Alexander Bowes-Lyon (1887–1911)
Fergus Bowes-Lyon (1889–1915)
Rose Bowes-Lyon (1890–1967)
Michael Bowes-Lyon (1893–1953)
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002)
David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961)
Francis Bowes-Lyon23 February 185618 February 1948Anne Lindsay (1858–1936)Muriel Bowes-Lyon (1884–1968)
Charles Bowes-Lyon (1885–1914)
Capt. Geoffrey Bowes-Lyon (1886–1951)
Doris Bowes-Lyon (1887–1918)
Winnifred Bowes-Lyon (1889–1968)
Capt. Ronald Bowes-Lyon (1893–1960)
Lillian Bowes-Lyon (1895–1949)
Ernest Bowes-Lyon4 August 185827 December 1891Isobel Hester Drummond (1860–1945)Capt. Hubert Bowes-Lyon (1883–1959)
Susan Bowes-Lyon (1884–1885)
Dorothea Bowes-Lyon (1886–1886)
Joan Bowes-Lyon (1888–1954)
Marjorie Bowes-Lyon (1889–1981)
Ernestine Bowes-Lyon (1891–1981)
Herbert Bowes-Lyon15 August 186014 April 1897Not marriedNo issue
Maj. Patrick Bowes-Lyon5 March 18635 October 1946Alice Wiltshire (d 1953)Lt. Gavin Bowes-Lyon (1895–1917)
Angus Bowes-Lyon (1899–1923)
Jean Bowes-Lyon (1904–1963)
Margaret Bowes-Lyon (1907–1999)
Lady Constance Bowes-Lyon8 October 186519 November 1951Robert Francis Leslie Blackburn (d 1944)Phyllis Frances Agnes Blackburn (b 1894)
Leslie Herbert Blackburn (b 1901)
Hilda Constance Helen Blackburn (b 1902)
Claudia Blackburn (1908–2001)
Kenneth Bowes-Lyon26 April 18679 January 1911Not marriedNo issue
Mildred Marion Bowes-Lyon18689 June 1897Augustus Edward JessupAlfred Claude Jessup (1891-1953)
Alexander Marion Jessup (b 1895)
Maud Agness Bowes-Lyon187028 February 1941Not marriedNo issue
Evelyn Mary Bowes-Lyon187215 March 1876Not marriedDied young
Maj. Malcolm Bowes-Lyon23 April 187423 August 1957Winifred Gurdon Rebow (d 1957)Clodagh Bowes-Lyon (1908–2003)

Death

She died at 19 Hans Place, Chelsea, London on 5 February 1922, aged 89. She was buried at Glamis Castle, Angus, the family seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

References

  1. Vickers, page 4