John Herbert Bowes-Lyon (1 April 1886 – 7 February 1930) was the second son of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and the brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He was the uncle of Queen Elizabeth II, although he died when she was a small child and before her sister Princess Margaret was born.
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Early life
John Bowes-Lyon was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, where he played first-class cricket for the university side in three matches in 1906 and 1907, playing as a fast-medium bowler.
Marriage and children
On 29 September 1914, Bowes-Lyon married Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (19 August 1889 – 19 July 1966), the younger daughter of Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton. They had five daughters:
Patricia Bowes-Lyon (6 July 1916 – 18 June 1917) died in infancy
Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon (4 December 1917 – 26 September 1980) married, on 28 April 1938, Lt.-Col. Thomas William Arnold Anson, Viscount Anson (4 May 1913 – 8 March 1958), son of the fourth Earl of Lichfield; they were divorced in 1948. They had two children. Anne remarried Prince Georg of Denmark (16 April 1920 – 29 September 1986) on 16 September 1950.