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3 unusual facts about Thomas Lyon-Bowes


Clan Lyon

1846–1865 – Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Lord Strathmore and Kinghorne married the Honourable Charlotte Maria Barrington, daughter of William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington, on 30 April 1850.

Lyon-Bowes was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis, son of Thomas Bowes-Lyon, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.


Bowes Castle

Still ruined, Bowes Castle was reclaimed by the Crown in 1361; between 1444 and 1471 it was controlled by the Neville family, powerful regional landowners, before reverting to the Crown once again.

Bowes Museum

The Bowes Museum has a nationally renowned art collection and is situated in the town of Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England.

Bowes was the illegitimate son of John Bowes the 10th Earl of Strathmore, and Kinghorne.

Charlotte Lyon-Bowes, Lady Glamis

She married Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis, only son of Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter, on 21 December 1820 at St. James's, Westminster, London, England.

Church of St Mary the Less, Cambridge

The south, or Lady Chapel, was added in 1931 and designed by Thomas Lyon, the architect of Sidney Sussex College Chapel.

David Lyon

David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961), brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother

David Sydney Maddicott

From 1976 to 1990, he worked in sales and marketing for Rank Xerox and Pitney Bowes, before proceeding to undertake postgraduate studies between 1990 and 1993.

Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Aside from the Earldoms, the Earl holds the subsidiary titles: Viscount Lyon (created 1677), Lord Glamis, Tannadyce, Sidlaw and Strathdichtie (1677), Lord Lyon and Glamis (1606), Lord Glamis (1445) and Baron Bowes (1887) of Streatlam Castle, in the County of Durham, and of Lunedale, in the County of York.

Gibside

In 1767, the granddaughter of Sir William Bowes – the "Bowes heiress" Mary Eleanor Bowes – married John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who changed his surname to Bowes due to a provision in her father's will that any suitor had to take the family name.

Jerome Bowes

Alfred Nicolas Rambaud, in his History of Russia, blamed Bowes for clumsiness and lack of tact.

Louise Crane-Bowes

Louise Crane-Bowes is an Australian writer who was script producer of the TV series All Saints for a number of years and is currently script producer for Home and Away.

She has also worked as a writer and script editor on such shows as Murder Call, Water Rats, and McLeod's Daughters.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

Ted Mack, who had supervised the auditions for Bowes, became the interim host of the radio show and a few months later moved it to the fledgling medium of television.

In his comic monologue on his album Sinatra at the Sands (1966), Frank Sinatra describes how his vocal group The Hoboken Four's appearances were so popular on Major Bowes Amateur Hour in the mid-1930s that they were brought back week after week, under a different name each time.

Mary Jane Bowes

In Pennsylvania's 2001 judicial elections, Bowes ran as a Republican for one of three open seats on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Patrick Bowes-Lyon

As a younger brother of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's father, he was a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.

Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 in Belgravia, Middlesex – 5 October 1946 in Westerham, Kent) was a British tennis player, barrister and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Process Shot

Her owner, Sonny Werblin of Elberon Farms (who also owned the New York Jets), and trainer J. Bowes Bond decided to run Process Shot in the defacto second jewel of the filly triple crown, the $40,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 1969.

Shane Bowes

Shane Bowes, the son of 1962, 1964 and 1974 South Australian and 1968 Australian Sidecar champion Len Bowes, began speedway racing at the Under-16 Sidewinders Speedway in the Adelaide suburb of Wingfield.

Sleightholme Beck Gorge – The Troughs

The site covers a gorge in the valley of Sleightholme Beck between the hamlet of Sleightholme and the confluence with the River Greta, some 3 km upriver from the village of Bowes.

Something Ventured

Something Ventured features the venture capitalists Arthur Rock, Tom Perkins, Don Valentine, Dick Kramlich, Reid Dennis, Bill Draper, Pitch Johnson, Bill Bowes, Bill Edwards, and Jim Gaither.

Strathmore, Alberta

The CPR named the town after one of its benefactors: Claude Bowes-Lyon, the Earl of Strathmore.

Technical University of British Columbia

Other prominent names who joined TechBC later included Michael Gurstein, John Bowes, Steve diPaola, Thecla Schiphorst, Michael Dobson, Robert Woodbury and V-chip inventor Tim Collings.

Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Their daughter Maria Susannah Simpson married Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth (youngest son of Sir Henry Liddell 5th Bart, younger brother of Revd Henry George Liddell d. 1872)

Thomas Secker

Also boarding at Bowes's house was Isaac Watts, who encouraged Secker to attend the dissenting academy at Gloucester, set up by Samuel Jones.

U.S. Venture Partners

Bill Bowes, who is the last remaining founding partner at USVP had worked as a venture capitalist prior to USVP working with companies including Cetus, Raychem Corporation and Dymo Industries.


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