| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| Birth Name: | Patrick Bowes-Lyon |
| Birth Date: | 22 September 1884 |
| Birth Place: | St Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire, England |
| Death Place: | Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Spouse: | Lady Dorothy Osborne |
| Father: | Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne |
| Mother: | Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck |
Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th and 2nd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, (22 September 1884 – 25 May 1949) was a British nobleman and peer. As the eldest brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, he was a maternal uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
Patrick Bowes-Lyon was born on 22 September 1884 at St Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire to Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck.[1] He was an older brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later the Queen Mother), and therefore an uncle of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret. At the outbreak of World War I, he went into service with the Black Watch. On 19 June 1920, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Forfarshire.
As an uncle of the bride, Bowes-Lyon was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten.[2]
The Earl married Lady Dorothy Beatrix Godolphin Osborne (3 December 1888 – 18 June 1946), daughter of George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds, on 21 November 1908 in London. The couple had four children:
The Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne died on 18 June 1946, aged 57. The Earl outlived her by almost three years and died on 25 May 1949 in Angus, Scotland, aged 64.