Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
Patrick Bowes-Lyon | |
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Birth Date: | 5 March 1863 |
Birth Place: | Belgravia, Middlesex, England |
Death Place: | Westerham, Kent, England |
Singlestitles: | 11[1] |
Wimbledonresult: | QF (1885) |
Wimbledondoublesresult: | W (1887) |
Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 – 5 October 1946) was a British tennis player, barrister and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
He won the Scottish Championships in 1885, 1886 and 1888, he won the doubles at Wimbledon alongside Herbert Wilberforce. 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 and Herbert Bowes-Lyon who also played tennis.
He stood as the Conservative Party candidate for Barnard Castle.
The fifth of seven sons and one of the eleven children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and of Frances Dora Smith, he married Alice Wiltshire, daughter of George Wiltshire, on 9 August 1893.
He and his wife Alice had four children:
Besides being a British tennis player, he was also known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's paternal uncle. He was a guest at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1923.
He died on 5 October 1946, aged 83. His widow died in 1953 at the age of 86.
Outcome | Year | Championship | Partner | Opponents | Score | |
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Win | 1887 | Wimbledon | Herbert Wilberforce | H.J. Crispe E. Barratt-Smith | 7–5, 6–3, 6–2 | |
Loss | 1888 | Wimbledon | Herbert Wilberforce | Ernest Renshaw William Renshaw | 6–2, 6–1, 3–6, 4–6, 3–6 |
The Clarence Volume, Containing the Descendants of George, Duke of Clarence by (Melville Henry de Massue) Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, p 83, c) 1905.