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Princess Anne of Denmark, born Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon (1917–80), was the mother of royal photographer Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, and a first cousin of Elizabeth II. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were the third and fifth daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother's brother, and his wife, Fenella Bowes-Lyon.
The Hon. John Herbert Bowes-Lyon (1 April 1886 – 7 February 1930) was the second son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and the brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. [1] He was an uncle to Queen Elizabeth II, although he died when she was a small ...
Dec 5, 2018 · Hence John Lyon became John Bowes, although their children often hyphenated their name thus creating the well-known ‘Bowes-Lyon’. John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore. Relations between Mary Eleanor and her Lyon in-laws became strained when John died in 1776.
A stipulation of her marriage contract was that her future husband(s) should take the name of Bowes. The Earl complied, but the ‘Lyon’ surname reappeared when his youngest son, Thomas succeeded as 11 th Earl, firstly as Lyon-Bowes, gradually evolving into ‘Bowes Lyon’. He suffered from ill health and died at sea on his way to Portugal ...
On the death of the 10th Earl in 1820 the Bowes estates in the north of England passed to a natural son, John Bowes, but on the latter's death in 1885 they reverted to his cousin, the 13th Earl. Smaller English estates were acquired through the marriage of the 8th Earl to Jean Nicholson of Hetton and West Rainton (Co. Durham) in 1753, and of the 11th Earl to Mary Carpenter of Redbourn ...
Oct 29, 2023 · Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were born in 1919 and 1926, respectively, to John Herbert Bowes-Lyon. He was the uncle of Queen Elizabeth II , making his two daughters her first cousins. In 1941, the daughters were ousted from their family home in Scotland and sent to Surrey, spending the rest of their lives in the Victorian-era institution (pictured, in 1845).
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Mar 17, 2024 · The Bowes-Lyon family descends from George Bowes of Gibside and Streatlam Castle (1701–1760), a County Durham landowner and politician, through John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, chief of the Clan Lyon. Following the marriage in 1767 of the 9th Earl to rich heiress Mary Eleanor Bowes, the family name was changed to Bowes by Act of Parliament.
