Patrick Bowes-Lyon

English tennis player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroEnglish tennis player
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain England
wasAthlete Military officer Soldier Lawyer Judge Tennis player Officer Barrister
Work fieldLaw Military Sports
Gender
Male
Birth5 March 1863, Belgravia
Death5 October 1946 (aged 83 years)
Star signPisces
The details

Biography

Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 – 5 October 1946) was a British tennis player, barrister and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
Having been Scottish tennis champion in 1885, 1886 and 1888, he won the doubles at Wimbledon alongside Herbert Wilberforce. As a younger brother of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's father, he was a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
The fifth of seven sons and one of the eleven children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and of Frances Dora Smith, he married Alice Wiltshire, daughter of George Wiltshire, on 9 August 1893.
He and his wife Alice had four children:
Lt. Gavin Patrick (13 December 1895 – November 1917) killed in action
Angus Patrick (22 October 1899 – 10 July 1923)
Jean Barbara (9 October 1904 – 7 January 1963)
Margaret Ann (14 June 1907 – 14 August 1999) married 2 June 1946 Lt. Col. Francis Arthur Philip D'Abreu (1 October 1904 – 6 November 1995). Had one son and two daughters: Anthony Patrick John D'Abreu (born 17 March 1946), Francesca D'Abreu (born 7 February 1948), and Anne Teresa Alice D'Abreu (16 February 1950 – 17 April 1995).

^ "Patrick Bowes- Lyon: Stats". tennisarchives.com. Tennis Archives. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up)

OutcomeYearChampionshipPartnerOpponents in finalScore in final
Winner1887Wimbledon Herbert Wilberforce H.J. Crispe
E. Barratt-Smith
7–5, 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up1888Wimbledon Herbert Wilberforce Ernest Renshaw
William Renshaw
6–2, 6–1, 3–6, 4–6, 3–6

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