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John Herbert Bowes-Lyon
Second + Earl + Countess
Male
Born
Apr 1, 1886
Died
Feb 7, 1930
John Herbert "Jock" Bowes-Lyon, was the second son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the favourite brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the future Queen Elizabeth and later the Queen Mother). He was… Read More
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John Herbert Bowes-Lyon
d.1930
parents
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Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes-LyonBrother, d.1953
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CHILDHOOD
1886
Birth
Born in 1886.
TWENTIES
1912
26 Years Old
It was amputated the following day and while receiving treatment in the UK, he admitting having experienced a nervous breakdown in 1912 and also suffered from neurasthenia.
1914
28 Years Old
On 29 September 1914, John married The Honourable Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (19 August 1889 – 19 July 1966), the younger daughter of the Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton.
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THIRTIES
1916
30 Years Old
Late that year, he was posted to the Ministry of Munitions and then in the Territorial Army in 1916.
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FORTIES
1930
44 Years Old
Jock died at the family home of Glamis Castle just after midnight on the morning of 7 February 1930 of pneumonia, aged 44, leaving his widow to care for their four young children alone. (Two of them, Nerissa and Katherine, were severely mentally disabled.) Three days later he was buried at St Paul's Walden Bury.
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