Background
Claude was born in Lowndes Square, London, the son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his wife, the former Frances Dora Smith.
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Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Knight of the Order of the Garter Knight of the Order ot the Thistle Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Territorial Decoration was a landowner, the father of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth World War II
Education
Eton College.
Career
From 1937 he was known as "14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne", because he was the 14th Earl in the peerage of Scotland but the 1st Earl in the peerage of the United Kingdom. Upon succeeding his father to the Earldom on 16 February 1904, he inherited large estates in Scotland and England, including Glamis Castle, Street Paul"s Walden Bury, and Woolmers Park, near Hertford. He had a keen interest in forestry, and was one of the first to grow larch from seed in Britain.
His estates had a large number of smallholders and he had a reputation for being unusually kind to his tenants.
His contemporaries described him as an unpretentious man, often seen in "an old macintosh tied with a piece of twine". He worked his own land and enjoyed physical labour in the grounds of his estates.
Visitors mistook him for a common labourer. He made his own cocoa for breakfast, and always had a jug of water by his place at dinner so he could dilute his own wine.
Five years later he was made a Knight of the Thistle.
As the queen consort"s father, he was created a Knight of the Garter and Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in the Coronation Honours of 1937. Later in life he became extremely deaf. Lord Strathmore died of bronchitis on 7 November 1944, aged 89, at Glamis Castle.
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His younger brother Patrick Bowes-Lyon was a tennis player who won the 1887 Wimbledon doubles. Despite the Earl"s reservations about royalty, in 1923 his youngest daughter, Elizabeth, married George V"s second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lord Strathmore was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order to mark the marriage.
Membership
He was an active member of the Territorial Army and served as Honorary Colonel of the 4th/5th Battalion of the Black Watch. This enabled him to sit in the House of Lords as an Earl (because members of the Peerage of Scotland did not automatically sit in the House of Lords, he had previously sat only as a Baron through the Barony of Bowes created for his father).
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Born
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Died
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Nationality
United Kingdom