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John Herbert "Jock" 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, the favourite brother 〔Andrew Morton, "Theirs is the kingdom: the wealth of the British royal family", Publisher Summit Books, 1989, (page 86 ))〕 of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the future Queen Elizabeth and later the Queen Mother). He was an uncle to Queen Elizabeth II, although he died when she was a small child. ==Personal life== John Bowes-Lyon was educated at Oxford University where he played first-class cricket for the university side in three matches in 1906 and 1907, playing as a fast-medium bowler.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Player Profile: John Bowes-Lyon )〕 On 29 September 1914, Bowes-Lyon married The Honourable 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 children, all girls: * Patricia Bowes-Lyon (6 July 1916 – 18 June 1917), died in infancy * Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes-Lyon (4 December 1917 – 26 September 1980) m. Prince George Valdemar of Denmark * Nerissa Jane Irene Bowes-Lyon (18 February 1919 – 22 January 1986) * Diana Cinderella Mildred Bowes-Lyon (14 December 1923 – 20 May 1986) m. Peter Gordon Colin Somervell. Their daughter Katherine (b. 1961) is a god-daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. * Katherine Bowes-Lyon (4 July 1926 – 23 February 2014). Before the outbreak of World War I, Bowes-Lyon worked as a stockbroker in the City of London for the firm Rowe and Pitman.〔 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. He died at the family home of Glamis Castle just after midnight on the morning of 7 February 1930 of pneumonia, aged 44, leaving his widow to care for their four young children alone. (Two of them, Nerissa and Katherine, were severely mentally disabled.)〔("Queen Mother's niece by marriage has pauper's funeral". ) Telegraph, By Chris Hastings, David Bamber and Susan Bisset. 14 Apr 2002〕 Three days later he was buried at St Paul's Walden Bury.〔Vickers, Hugo, ''Elizabeth: The Queen Mother'' (Arrow Books/Random House, 2006) p.112〕 His widow was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. 〔Royal Collection: Seating plan for the Ball Supper Room http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/royalwedding1947/object.asp?grouping=&exhibs=NONE&object=9000366&row=82&detail=magnify〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Bowes-Lyon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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