Ancestry of
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

(1900–2002)

John Lyon (Bowes)

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Lyon 
  • Mother:
  • Janes Nicholson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Jul 1737 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Mar 1776 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Eleanor Bowes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Feb 1767 
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  Thomas Lyon-Bowes (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  • Notes: 

  • 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

    He was born John Lyon, and per the will of his father-in-law he assumed his wife's name of Bowes. This change in name required an Act of Parliament.

• Sources for John Lyon (Bowes)

  • ¹ Debrett, John, Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II, Scotland and Ireland, London: Printed by G. Woodfall (1828), 496.
  • ² Renton, A. Wood, general editor, The English Reports, Volume V, House of Lords, Containing Bligh, N. S., Volumes 4 to 9, Edinburgh: William Green and Sons (1901), 42-46.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 101.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne", _9th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne, (accessed 04/11/2014).