John Herbert Bowes-Lyon

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John Herbert Bowes-Lyon (1 April 1886–7 February 1930) (known as "Jock") was the second son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne and a brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the future Queen Elizabeth and later the Queen Mother).

Before the outbreak of World War I, John worked as a stockbroker in the City of London. On 29 September 1914, John married The Honourable Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (19 Aug 1889–19 July 1966), the younger daughter of the 21st Baron Clinton and they had five children:

Patricia Bowes-Lyon (6 July 1916–18 June 1917), died young.
Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon (4 December 1917–26 September 1980)
Nerissa Jane Irene Bowes-Lyon (18 February 1919–1986)
Diana Cinderella Mildred Bowes-Lyon (14 December 1923–1986)
Katherine Bowes-Lyon (born 4 July 1926)

In 1915, he was posted with The Black Watch and just prior to the Battle of Aubers Ridge that year, he accidentally shot himself in his left forefinger. It was amputated the following day and while receiving treatment in the UK, he admitting having experienced a nervous breakdown in 1912 and also suffered from neurasthenia. Late that year, he was posted to the Ministry of Munitions and then in the Territorial Army in 1916. After the war, he was twice threatened with courts-martial after having failed to show on parade for demobilisation and later returned to his job in the City.

Jock died at the family home of Glamis Castle just after midnight on the morning of 7 February of pneumonia, leaving his wife to care for their four young children (two of whom were severely handicapped) alone. Three days later he was buried at St Paul's Walden Bury.^[1]