| Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable | ||||||||||||
| Michael Bowes-Lyon | |||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | St Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire, England | ||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | Mickie Bowes-Lyon | ||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Magdalen College, Oxford | ||||||||||||
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| Father: | Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | ||||||||||||
| Mother: | Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck | ||||||||||||
| Relations: | Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (sister)
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Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes-Lyon (1 October 1893 – 1 May 1953) was a British nobleman. A British Army officer during World War I, he was a prisoner of war at Holzminden. He was an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and maternal uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
Bowes-Lyon was born on 1 October 1893, the fifth son and eight child of Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, later 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. Nicknamed Mickie, he was educated at Eton College. He later studied at Magdalen College, Oxford.[1] [2] [3] During World War I, Bowes-Lyon served in France in The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).[4] He was taken as a prisoner of war at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp.[5] He relinquished his commission in 1921.
After the war, Bowes-Lyon was a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant of Bedfordshire. He resided at Gastlings near Biggleswade.[6]
In 1928, Bowes-Lyon married Elizabeth Margaret Cator (1899–1959), daughter of John Cator. at St George's, Hanover Square.[4] [7] Cator had been a bridesmaid at his sister Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Albert, Duke of York, in 1923.[8] They had two sons and twin daughters:
Bowes-Lyon died of asthma on 1 May 1953 at his home in Biggleswade.[3] His health had never fully recovered from being a prisoner of war.[11] He was buried in the churchyard of Glamis Parish Church.
In later life, following the death of his brother, the 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, he was heir presumptive to his nephew, the 16th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Bowes-Lyon predeceased him and the earldom was inherited by his eldest son, Fergus, in 1972. His younger children received the title and precedence of the children of an earl by royal warrant of precedence in 1974.
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