The Right Honourable
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
DL
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard
In office
30 December 1991 – 20 July 1994
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byThe Viscount Davidson
Succeeded byThe Earl of Arran
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
20 August 1987 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Personal details
Born(1957-06-07)7 June 1957
Windsor, Berkshire, England
Died27 February 2016(2016-02-27) (aged 58)
London, England
Spouses
Isobel Weatherall
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(m. 1984; div. 2005)​
    Damaris Stuart-William
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    (m. 2005; div. 2008)​
      Karen Baxter
      ​
      (m. 2012)​
      Children
      Parents
      ResidenceGlamis Castle
      Education

      Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th and 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, DL (7 June 1957 – 27 February 2016), styled Lord Glamis between 1972 and 1987, was a British politician and soldier, and a first cousin, once removed, of Queen Elizabeth II. He was usually known to family and friends as Mikey Strathmore.

      Family and background

      Lord Strathmore was the only son of Michael Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his wife, Mary Pamela McCorquodale (b. 1932).[1] He was a grandnephew of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and a first cousin, once removed, of Queen Elizabeth II.

      Michael Bowes-Lyon was educated at Sunningdale School, Eton College, the University of Aberdeen, and RMA Sandhurst. He rose to the rank of captain in the British Army[2] (serving with the Scots Guards). He succeeded his father as 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1987.

      Marriage and children

      Lord Strathmore was married three times.

      On 14 November 1984, Bowes-Lyon married Isobel Charlotte Weatherall (born c. 1962), great-granddaughter of Henry Keswick and sister of businessman Percy Weatherall, Tai-pan of Jardine Matheson. Her elder sister Catherine Nony Weatherall was married to Sir Nicholas Soames.

      The Earl and his first wife were separated in 2003 and were divorced in 2005. They had three children:

      On 24 November 2005, at Glamis Castle, Strathmore married Dr. Damaris E. Stuart-William, a clinical psychologist. They were separated in 2007 and were divorced in 2008. They had one child, a son:

      • Hon. Toby Peter Fergus Bowes-Lyon (b. March 2005) (legitimised upon the marriage of his parents)

      On 4 August 2012, Strathmore married Karen Baxter (née Orrock), who survived him.[3]

      Arms

      Coat of arms of Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
      Coronet
      A Coronet of an Earl
      Crest
      Between two Slips of Laurel a Demi Lady to the girdle habited and holding in her right hand a Thistle all proper
      Escutcheon
      Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Lion rampant Azure armed and langued Gules within a Double Tressure flory counterflory of the second (Lyon); 2nd and 3rd, Ermine three Bows strings palewise proper (Bowes); as a Royal Augmentation, granted to the holder of the Earldom only, an Inescutcheon en surtout Azure thereon a Rose Argent barbed Vert seeded Or ensigned with an Imperial Crown proper within a Double Tressure flory counterflory of the second, the said Inescutcheon ensigned with an Earl's Coronet proper
      Supporters
      On the dexter side a Unicorn Argent armed unguled maned and tufted Or, and on the sinister side a Lion per fess Or and Gules
      Motto
      In Te Domine Speravi (In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust)[4]

      References

      1. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p231.htm The Peerage
      2. ↑ "No. 47316". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 September 1977. p. 11393.
      3. ↑ "Obituary: Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and businessman". The Scotsman. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
      4. ↑ Psalm 31:1 (Psalm 30:2 according to the Vulgate numbering).
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