The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Birth Name: | Thomas George Lyon-Bowes |
Birth Date: | 28 September 1822 |
Birth Place: | St Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire, England |
Death Place: | Glamis, Angus, Scotland |
Parents: | Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis Charlotte Grimstead |
Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (28 September 1822 – 13 September 1865), styled Lord Glamis between 1834 and 1846, was a Scottish peer and cricketer.
Lyon-Bowes was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis, son of Thomas Bowes-Lyon, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. His mother was Charlotte Grimstead, daughter of Joseph Valentine Grimstead, of Merry Hall, Lower Ashtead, Surrey.[1] He succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1846.
An amateur cricketer, Strathmore played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1844 to 1857.[2] In 1852 he was elected a Scottish representative peer, a post he held until July 1865.[3]
Lord Strathmore married the Honourable Charlotte Maria Barrington, daughter of William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington, on 30 April 1850. The marriage was childless. She died on 3 November 1854, aged 27. Lord Strathmore died on 13 September 1865, aged 42, and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Claude.