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Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Landowner
Male
Born
Mar 14, 1855
Hometown
London
Died
Nov 7, 1944
Death Place
Glamis Castle
Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD, was a landowner and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. From 1937 he was known as "14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne", because he was the 14th Earl… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1855
Birth
Born on March 14, 1855.
TWENTIES
1876
21 Years Old
After being educated at Eton College he received a commission in the 2nd Life Guards in 1876, and served for six years until the year after his marriage.
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1881
26 Years Old
He married Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck on 16 July 1881 in Petersham, Surrey.
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FORTIES
1904
49 Years Old
Upon succeeding his father to the Earldom on 16 February 1904, he inherited large estates in Scotland and England, including Glamis Castle, St Paul's Walden Bury, and Woolmers Park, near Hertford.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1923
68 Years Old
Despite the Earl's reservations about royalty, in 1923 his youngest daughter, Elizabeth, married George V's second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lord Strathmore was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order to mark the marriage.
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1936
81 Years Old
In 1936 his son-in-law's brother, Edward VIII, abdicated and his son-in-law became King.
1937
82 Years Old
As the queen consort's father, he was created a Knight of the Garter and Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in the Coronation Honours of 1937.
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1944
90 Years Old
Lord Strathmore died of bronchitis on 7 November 1944, aged 89, at Glamis Castle. (Lady Strathmore had died in 1938.) He was succeeded by his son, Patrick Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis.
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