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Charlotte Lyon-Bowes

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Charlotte Lyon-Bowes
Born22 January 1797
19 January 188119 January 1881
💼 Occupation
TitleLady Glamis
👩 Spouse(s)Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis
👶 Children
👴 👵 Parents
  • Joseph Valentine Grimstead (father)
  • Merry Hall (mother)

Charlotte Lyon-Bowes, Lady Glamis (née Grimstead; 22 January 1797 – 19 January 1881) was a daughter of Joseph Valentine Grimstead, of Ewood Park[1][lower-alpha 1] and Merry Hall,[lower-alpha 2][2] and Charlotte Jane Sarah Walsh. She was born at Leatherhead, Surrey and died at Redbourn, Hertfordshire and was a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.[4]

She married Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Lord Glamis, only son of Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter, on 21 December 1820 at St. James's, Westminster, London, England.

Her children were:

  • Thomas Lyon-Bowes (18 October 1821 – 18 October 1821)
  • Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (28 September 1822 – 13 September 1865)
  • Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (21 July 1824 – 16 February 1904), ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Charlotte Lyon-Bowes (15 May 1826 – 22 October 1844)
  • Herbert Lyon-Bowes (1828 – died in infancy)
  • Arthur Lyon-Bowes (1830 – died in infancy)
  • Frances Lyon-Bowes (8 February 1832 – 27 January 1903), raised to the rank of an earl's daughter (with the style of Lady Frances) in 1847,[5] married Hugh Charles Bettesworth Trevanion

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Notes
  1. Iwood, or Ewood Park.– A mansion and park of about six hundred acres in extent, in this parish, which had belonged to the Earls of Warren and Surrey (...).[1]
  2. The Grimsteads seem to have removed to Merry Hall, Lower Ashtead, Ashtead, Surrey, in the summer of 1820. Merry Hall is a Grade II listed building, a Georgian mansion with five acres, "one of the most pleasant looking houses in Ashtead".[2][3]
  1. 1.0 1.1 Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1850). A Topographical History of Surrey Volume 4. G. Willis. p. 289. Retrieved 10 September 2022. Search this book on
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bouchard, Brian. "The curious case of Joseph Valentine Grimstead" – A man of substance and principle. Epsom & Ewell History Explorer. January 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  3. "Merry Hall (Ashtead) – Leatherhead & District Local History" (PDF). leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  4. Edward J. Davies, "Walsh of Redbourn", Genealogists' Magazine, 30 (2010–12), pp. 241-45.
  5. Boase, G.C.; Courtney, W.P. (1878). Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: P-Z. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. p. 791. Retrieved 20 August 2017. Search this book on

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