Fergus Bowes-Lyon

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Captain The Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon (April 18, 1889 - September 27, 1915) was a brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

He was born at Glamis Castle in Forfarshire and educated at Eton College, Berkshire. Just a fortnight after the start of World War I, he married Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer (7 August 1890 - 29 March 1959), daughter of the 5th Earl of Portarlington, on 17 September 1914. She bore him a daughter, Rosemary Lusia (18 July 1915 - 18 January 1989).^[1]

In the First World War he served with the 8th Battalion, Black Watch and was killed in the opening stages of the Battle of Loos. Leading an attack on the German lines, his leg was blown off by a barrage of German artillery and he fell back into his sergeant's arms. Bullets struck him in the chest and shoulder and he died on the field.^[2] He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.^[3]

His mother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was severely affected by the loss of her son, and after his death became an invalid withdrawn from public life until the marriage of her daughter Elizabeth to the future king in 1923.^[4]

Fergus's widow married secondly Captain William Frederick Martin (d. 6 October 1947).^[1]

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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 Sarah Jane 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 Hodgson

23. Mary Tucker

1. Fergus Bowes-Lyon

24. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

12. Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck

25. 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

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