Fergus Bowes-Lyon

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Captain The Hon Fergus Bowes-Lyon (April 18, 1889 - September 27, 1915) was a brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Just a fortnight after the start of World War I, he married Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer, daughter of the 5th Earl of Portarlington. Ten months later, she bore him a daughter, Rosemary Lusia, on 18 July 1915.<ref name="burke">Charles Mosley (ed.), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage and Gentry LLC, 2003) vol. III p. 3783-3784</ref>

In World War I he served with the 8th Battalion Black Watch and was killed in the opening stages of the Battle of Loos. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.<ref>CWGC: Fergus Bowes-Lyon</ref>

His mother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was severely affected by the loss of her son, and after his death became an invalid withdrawn from public life until the marriage of her daughter Elizabeth to the future king in 1923.<ref>The Times (London) Thursday, 23 June 1938; p. 16; col. D</ref>

Fergus's widow married secondly Captain William Frederick Martin and died on 29 March 1959.<ref name="burke" />