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Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer

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Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer (7 August 1890 - 29 March 1959) was the sister-in-law of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

She was the daughter of the 5th Earl of Portarlington, Lionel Dawson-Damer, and Emma Kennedy. She married for the first time to Captain the Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon, son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his wife Cecilie née Cavendish-Bentinck on 17 September 1914.

They had one child born shortly before Bowes-Lyon's death in the First World War:

  • Rosemary Luisa Bowes-Lyon (18 Jul 1915 - 18 Jan 1989)

After Fergus's death she remarried to Captain William Frederick Martin, son of Charles William Wall Martin, on 4 June 1919.

They had a son born the year after they married:

  • Nigel Damer Martin (1920 - 1990) [1]

References

  1. ^ "Nigel Damer Martin - Person - National Portrait Gallery".