David Bowes-Lyon

Sir David Bowes-Lyon KCVO (2 May 1902^[1] – 13 September 1961) was the sixth son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck. His sister Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married Prince Albert, the second son of King George V, in 1923 and became Queen Consort on the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII in 1936.^[2]

On 6 February 1929, he married Rachel Pauline Clay (d. 21 January 1996) and they had two children:

• Davina Katherine Bowes-Lyon (b. 2 May 1930)
• Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon (b. 17 June 1932)

During World War II, David was a member of the secret propaganda department Political Warfare Executive. He was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1950 and Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1952 until his death. Also, he became President of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1953.^[3][4] In 1960, he commanded the third World Orchid Conference.^[5]

He died at his sister's home, Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate, of a heart attack after suffering from hemiplegia. The Queen Mother discovered him dead in bed.^[6] The funeral was held at Ballater, and he was buried at St Paul's Walden Bury.

Ancestry

16. Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

8. Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis

17. Mary Elizabeth Louisa Carpenter

4. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

18. Joseph Valentine Grimstead

9. Charlotte Grimstead

19. Charlotte Jane Sarah Walsh

2. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

20. George Smith

10. Oswald Smith

21. Frances Mary Mosley

5. Frances Dora Smith

22. Robert Hodgson, Dean of Carlisle

11. Henrietta Hodgson

23. Mary Tucker

1. David Bowes-Lyon

24. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

12. Lord Charles Bentinck

25. Dorothy Cavendish

6. Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck

26. Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

13. Anne Wellesley

27. Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland

3. Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck

28. Edwyn Andrew Burnaby

14. Edwyn Burnaby

29. Mary Browne

7. Caroline Louisa Burnaby

30. Thomas Salisbury

15. Anne Caroline Salisbury

31. Frances Webb

References

1. ^ "Royal feud: the Queen Mother and the Duchess of Windsor" - Google Books
2. ^ "Gardeners chronicle & new horticulturist" - Google Books
3. ^ "The story of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1804-1968" - Google Books
4. ^ "Lily year book, Volume 23" - Google Books
5. ^ "Proceedings of the third World Orchid Conference" - Google Books
6. ^ Vickers, Hugo (2006). Elizabeth: The Queen Mother. Arrow Books/Random House. p. 394. ISBN 9780099476627. 

Honorary titles
Preceded by Walter Hugh Crosland	High Sheriff of Hertfordshire 1950	Succeeded by Sir William Acland, Bt
Preceded by The Viscount Hampden	Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire 1952–1961	Succeeded by Sir George Burns

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Name	Bowes-Lyon, David
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Date of birth	2 May 1902
Place of birth
Date of death	13 September 1961
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