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Sir David Bowes-Lyon KCVO (2 May 1902[1] – 13 September 1961) was the sixth son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck as well as their tenth and youngest child. His elder sister Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of George V, in 1923 and became Queen Consort on the abdication of her husband's brother Edward VIII on 11 December 1936.[2]

On 6 February 1929, he married Rachel Pauline Clay, younger daughter of Herbert Henry Spender-Clay, and they had two children:

During World War II, Bowes-Lyon was a member of the secret propaganda department Political Warfare Executive. He was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1950 and Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1 July 1952[3] until his death. Also, he became President of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1953.[4][5] In 1960, he commanded the third World Orchid Conference.[6] He was also a godfather to Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.

He died at his sister's home, Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate, of a heart attack after suffering from hemiplegia. The Queen Mother discovered him dead in bed.[7] The funeral was held at Ballater, and he was buried at St Paul's Walden Bury.

Ancestry

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

References

  1. ^ Thornton, Michael (September 1985). Royal feud: the Queen Mother and the Duchess of Windsor. M. Joseph. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  2. ^ Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist. Haymarket Publishing. 1954. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  3. ^ "No. 239587". The London Gazette. 1 July 1952.
  4. ^ Fletcher, Harold Roy (1969). The story of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1804-1968. Oxford U. P. for the Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  5. ^ The Lily Year Book. Royal Horticultural Society. 1959. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  6. ^ Proceedings of the Third World Orchid Conference. Royal Horticultural Society. 1960. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  7. ^ Vickers, Hugo (2006). Elizabeth: The Queen Mother. Arrow Books/Random House. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-09-947662-7.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Walter Hugh Crosland
 High Sheriff of Hertfordshire
1950 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire
1952–1961 		Succeeded by
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