Fergus Bowes-Lyon

Captain The Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon (April 18, 1889 - September 27, 1915) was a brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

He was born at Glamis Castle in Forfarshire and educated at Eton College, Berkshire. Just a fortnight after the start of World War I, he married Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer (7 August 1890 - 29 March 1959), daughter of the 5th Earl of Portarlington, on 17 September 1914. She bore him a daughter, Rosemary Lusia Bowes-Lyon (18 July 1915 - 18 January 1989).Charles Mosley (ed.), "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition" (Burke's Peerage and Gentry LLC, 2003) vol. III p. 3783-3784]

In the First World War he served with the 8th Battalion, Black Watch and was killed in the opening stages of the Battle of Loos. Leading an attack on the German lines, his leg was blown off by a barrage of German artillery and he fell back into his sergeant's arms. Bullets struck him in the chest and shoulder and he died on the field. [Hugo Vickers, "Elizabeth: The Queen Mother" (Arrow Books/Random House, 2006) p.22] He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. [ [http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=728198 CWGC: Fergus Bowes-Lyon] ]

His mother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was severely affected by the loss of her son, and after his death became an invalid withdrawn from public life until the marriage of her daughter Elizabeth to the future king in 1923. ["The Times (London)" Thursday, 23 June 1938; p. 16; col. D]

Fergus's widow married secondly Captain William Frederick Martin (d. 6 October 1947).

Ancestry

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1= 1. Fergus Bowes-Lyon
2= 2. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
3= 3. Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck
4= 4. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
5= 5. Frances Dora Smith
6= 6. Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck
7= 7. Caroline Louisa Burnaby
8= 8. Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis
9= 9. Charlotte Grimstead
10= 10. Oswald Smith
11= 11. Henrietta Hodgson
12= 12. Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck
13= 13. Anne Wellesley
14= 14. Edwyn Burnaby
15= 15. Anne Caroline Salisbury
16= 16. Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
17= 17. Mary Elizabeth Louisa Carpenter
18= 18. Joseph Valentine Grimstead
19= 19. Charlotte Sarah Jane Walsh
20= 20. George Smith
21= 21. Frances Mary Mosley
22= 22. Robert Hodgson, Dean of Carlisle
23= 23. Mary Tucker
24= 24. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
25= 25. Dorothy Cavendish
26= 26. Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
27= 27. Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland
28= 28. Edwyn Andrew Burnaby
29= 29. Mary Browne
30= 30. Thomas Salisbury
31= 31. Frances Webb

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