Frances Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Frances Dora Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (née Smith; 29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922) was a British noblewoman. She was the paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and thus a great grandmother of the current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Her father was Oswald Smith, of Blendon Hall (7 July 1794 – 18 June 1863), and her mother was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (c. 1805–1891). Her paternal grandparents were George Smith and wife Frances Mary Mosley, daughter of Sir John Parker Mosley, 1st Baronet, and wife Elizabeth Bayley, granddaughter of Nicholas Mosley and wife Elizabeth Parker, and sister of Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, great-great-grandfather of Oswald Mosley.

On 28 September 1853, she married Claude Bowes-Lyon. He later became the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne following the death of his brother Thomas in 1865. Frances then assumed the title and style of Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Together the couple had 11 children.

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Name	Birth	Death	Spouse(s)	Issue
Claude Bowes-Lyon	14 March 1855	7 November 1944	Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862–1938)	Violet Bowes-Lyon (1882–1893) Mary Bowes-Lyon (1883–1961) Patrick Bowes-Lyon (1884–1949) John Bowes-Lyon (1886–1930) Alexander Bowes-Lyon (1887–1911) Fergus Bowes-Lyon (1889–1915) Rose Bowes-Lyon (1890–1967) Michael Bowes-Lyon (1893–1953) Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961)
Francis Bowes-Lyon	23 February 1856	18 February 1948	Anne Lindsay (1858–1936)	Muriel Bowes-Lyon (1884–1968) Charles Bowes-Lyon (1885–1914) Capt. Geoffrey Bowes-Lyon (1886–1951) Doris Bowes-Lyon (1887–1918) Winnifred Bowes-Lyon (1889–1968) Capt. Ronald Bowes-Lyon (1893–1960) Lillian Bowes-Lyon (1895–1949)
Ernest Bowes-Lyon	4 August 1858	27 December 1891	Isobel Hester Drummond (1860–1945)	Capt. Hubert Bowes-Lyon (1883–1959) Susan Bowes-Lyon (1884–1885) Dorothea Bowes-Lyon (1886–1886) Joan Bowes-Lyon (1888–1954) Marjorie Bowes-Lyon (1889–1981) Ernestine Bowes-Lyon (1891–?)
Herbert Bowes-Lyon	15 August 1860	14 April 1897	Not married	No issue
Maj. Patrick Bowes-Lyon	5 March 1863	5 October 1946	Alice Wiltshire (d 1953)	Lt. Gavin Bowes-Lyon (1895–1917) Angus Bowes-Lyon (1899–1923) Jean Bowes-Lyon (1904–1963) Margaret Bowes-Lyon (1907–1999)
Lady Constance Bowes-Lyon	1865	19 November 1951	Robert Francis Leslie Blackburn (d 1944)	Phyllis Frances Agnes Blackburn (b 1894) Leslie Herbert Blackburn (b 1901) Hilda Constance Helen Blackburn (b 1902) Claudia Blackburn (1908–2001)
Kenneth Bowes-Lyon	26 April 1867	9 January 1911	Not married	No issue
Mildred Marion Bowes-Lyon	1868	9 June 1897	Augustus Edward Jessup	Alfred Claude Jessup (b 1891) Alexander Marion Jessup (b 1895)
Maud Agness Bowes-Lyon	1870	28 February 1941	Not married	No issue
Evelyn Mary Bowes-Lyon	1872	15 March 1876	Not married	Died young
Maj. Malcolm Bowes-Lyon	23 April 1874	23 August 1957	Winifred Gurdon Rebow (d 1957)	Clodagh Bowes-Lyon (1908–2003)

She died at 19 Hans Place, Chelsea, London on 5 February 1922. She was buried at Glamis Castle, Angus, the family seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

References

1. ^ Vickers, p.4