Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th and 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, DL (7 June 1957 – 27 February 2016), styled Lord Glamis between 1972 and 1987, was a British politician and soldier, and a first cousin, once removed of Elizabeth II.

The Right Honourable The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne DL
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard
In office 30 December 1991 – 20 July 1994
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Viscount Davidson
Succeeded by	The Earl of Arran
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 20 August 1987 – 11 November 1999 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	The 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	7 June 1957 Windsor
Died	27 February 2016 (aged 58) London
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Isobel Charlotte Weatherall ​ ​ (m. 1984⁠–⁠2005)​ Damaris E. Stuart-William ​ ​ (m. 2005⁠–⁠2008)​ Karen Baxter ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne John Bowes-Lyon George Bowes-Lyon Toby Bowes-Lyon
Parents	Fergus Michael Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Mary Pamela McCorquodale
Residence	Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland
Education	Sunningdale School Eton College University of Aberdeen RMA Sandhurst

Family and background

Lord Strathmore was the only son of Michael Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his wife Mary Pamela McCorquodale (b.1932).[1] He was a great-nephew of the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and a first cousin, once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.

He was educated at Sunningdale School, Eton College, the University of Aberdeen and RMA Sandhurst. He rose to the rank of captain in the British Army[2] (serving with the Scots Guards). He succeeded his father as 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1987.

Marriage and children

Lord Strathmore was married three times.

In 1984 he married Isobel Charlotte Weatherall (b ca 1963), great-granddaughter of Henry Keswick and sister of businessman Percy Weatherall, Tai-Pans of Jardine Matheson. They were separated in 2003 and were divorced in 2005. They had three children:

• Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (b. 18 June 1986)
• Hon. John Fergus Bowes-Lyon (b. 1988)
• Hon. George Norman Bowes-Lyon (b. 1991)

On 24 November 2005 at Glamis Castle he married Dr. Damaris E. Stuart-William, a clinical psychologist. They were separated in 2007 and were divorced in 2008. They had one child, a son:

• Hon. Toby Peter Fergus Bowes-Lyon (b. March 2005) (legitimised upon the marriage of his parents)

On 4 August 2012 he married Karen Baxter who survived him.

Arms

Coat of arms of Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Coronet A Coronet of an Earl Crest Between two Slips of Laurel a Demi Lady to the girdle habited and holding in her right hand a Thistle all proper Escutcheon Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Lion rampant Azure armed and langued Gules within a Double Tressure flory counterflory of the second (Lyon); 2nd and 3rd, Ermine three Bows strings palewise proper (Bowes); as a Royal Augmentation, granted to the holder of the Earldom only, an Inescutcheon en surtout Azure thereon a Rose Argent barbed Vert seeded Or ensigned with an Imperial Crown proper within a Double Tressure flory counterflory of the second, the said Inescutcheon ensigned with an Earl's Coronet proper Supporters On the dexter side a Unicorn Argent armed unguled maned and tufted Or, and on the sinister side a Lion per fess Or and Gules Motto In Te Domine Speravi (In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust)[3]

References

1. http://www.thepeerage.com/p231.htm The Peerage
2. "No. 47316". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 September 1977. p. 11393.
3. Psalm 31:1 (Psalm 30:2 according to the Vulgate numbering).

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne