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

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	(1957-06-07)7 June 1957 Windsor, Berkshire, England
Died	27 February 2016(2016-02-27) (aged 58) London, England
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Isobel Weatherall ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 2005)​ Damaris Stuart-William ​ ​ (m. 2005; div. 2008)​ Karen Baxter ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Hon. John Bowes-Lyon Hon. George Bowes-Lyon Hon. Toby Bowes-Lyon
Parent(s)	Michael Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Mary McCorquodale
Residence	Glamis Castle
Education	Sunningdale School Eton College University of Aberdeen RMA Sandhurst

Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th and 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 16th Viscount Lyon, 18th Lord Lyon and Glamis, 25th Lord Glamis, 16th Lord Glamis, Tannadyce, Sidlaw and Strathdichtie, and 6th Baron Bowes, 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 Queen Elizabeth II. He was usually known to family and friends as Mikey Strathmore.

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 grandnephew 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.

On 14 November 1984, he married Isobel Charlotte Weatherall (born c. 1962), great-granddaughter of Henry Keswick and sister of businessman Percy Weatherall, Tai-Pans of Jardine Matheson; her elder sister Catherine Nony Weatherall was married to Sir Nicholas Soames as his first wife.

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[]

External links[]

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