Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (28 September 1822 - 13 September 1865) was the eldest surviving son of Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis
Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis
Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis was an heir to the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He was the only son of Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter...

 and his wife Charlotte Grimstead.

His paternal grandparents were Thomas Bowes-Lyon, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his first wife Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter. His maternal grandparents were Joseph Valentine Grimstead and Charlotte Jane Sarah Walsh.

With the death of his father on 27 January 1834, Thomas became the heir of his paternal grandfather. He inherited his titles and most of his estate on the death of said grandfather on 27 August 1846).

An amateur cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er, Strathmore played first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 for the Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

 from 1844 to 1857.

On 30 April 1850, Strathmore married Charlotte Maria Barrington. She was a daughter of William Keppel Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington and his wife Jane Elizabeth Liddell. Jane was in turn a daughter of Thomas Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth and his wife Maria Susannah Simpson.

This marriage was childless and the Earl was succeeded by his younger brother Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne , styled The Honourable from 1847 to 1865, was a British peer. He was the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne....

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