BOWES-LYON, Hon (Michael) Albemarle 1940-2023

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 4 Nov 2023: BOWES LYON Hon Michael Albemarle (Alby) died on 30th October 2023. Brother of the late Fergus 17th Earl of Strathmore, Mary and Patricia, and dearly loved and much missed by his family and friends. Private funeral with a celebration of his life to be held at a later date.

He was s of Capt Hon Michael Claude Hamilton BOWES-LYON 1893-1953 (s of 14th Earl of STRATHMORE &c 1855-1944 and bro of Queen ELIZABETH The QUEEN MOTHER 1900-2002. The late Albemarle’s 1^st cousin once removed is The KING) and Elizabeth Margaret CATOR 1899-1959 scion of that gentry family of Woodbastick. He was raised to the rank of an Earl’s son 1974. He never married.

[sven_me...@web.de]

So there are only a few remaning first cousins of the late queen. Duke of Kent, Duke of Gloucester, Princess Alexandra and SIr Simon Bowes-Lyon. 

[sven_me...@web.de]

I forgot Prince Michael of Kent.

[colinp]

Albemarle Bowes-Lyon bore Princess Margaret's coronet at the the 1953 Coronation

[bx...@yahoo.com]

The heir apparent son's name is Albemarle John, so evidently Albemarle is a family name.

Does anyone know how this came about?

Thanks.

Brooke

[gorgo...@gmail.com]

It's a family name. The first Albemarle was Lord Albemarle Bertie (d. 1765).

[Harry Merritt]

Albemarle is a family name in the Cator family, as in Elizabeth Margaret (Cator) Bowes-Lyon. Her grandfather was Albemarle Cator (1836-1906); her great-grandfather was Albemarle Cator (1813-68).

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[bx...@yahoo.com]

Thank you, gorgo.

Brooke

[dpth...@gmail.com]

If you mean Albemarle (d.1765), the son of the 2nd Duke of Ancaster, he wasn't even the first Albemarle Bertie. He had a great-uncle, Hon. Albemarle Bertie (1668-1742), son of the 3rd Earl of Lindsey. One suspects that he was named for the Duke of Albemarle.

[dpth...@gmail.com]

see https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bertie-hon-albemarle-1668-1742

[dpth...@gmail.com]

Apparently the Cators got the name from the Berties ("Bertie" is also a common name in the Cator family). Their ancestor Joseph Cator (1733-1818) was married to Diana Bertie, who Burke's says was sister of Sir Albemarle Bertie, Bt. (natural son of the 3rd Duke of Ancaster).

Was Diana also a natural daughter of the duke? I have not found her in Bertie sources.

[dpth...@gmail.com]

Re: Sir Albemarle Bertie:

I stated earlier that he was natural son of the 3rd Duke of Ancaster. One source whch says that is
https://morethannelson.com/officer/albemarle-bertie/

On the other hand, WIkipedia says he was son of the 3rd Duke's brother Albemarle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Albemarle_Bertie,_1st_Baronet

Does anyone have authoritative evidence about which is correct?

[S R Eglesfield]

Wikitree is not always a reliable source, but the notes at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bertie-195 point to Sir Albemarle Bertie having been the son of Lord Albemarle, whose will, it appears, mentioned a son called Albemarle.

[dpth...@gmail.com]

Thanks for that. That page seems well researched. I find it somewhat persuasive, especially since Lord Albemarle's will also mentions a daughter "Diana", who is likely the one who married Cator. Based on this, I think it most likely that Sir Albemarle Bertie, Bt., was son of Lord Albemarle Bertie, and not of the duke.

[colinp]

Obit in the Telegraph -  Albemarle Bowes Lyon, veteran Coutts banker and favourite nephew of the Queen Mother – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

EXTRACTS:

Albemarle Bowes Lyon, veteran Coutts banker and favourite nephew of the Queen Mother – obituary

Loved for his gentle demeanour and lively humour, ‘Alby’ was a regular guest of his aunt at Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, and at Balmoral

Albemarle Bowes Lyon, who has died aged 83, was a long-serving director of Coutts & Co, the private bankers to the Royal family, and a favourite nephew of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

“Alby” Bowes Lyon was recruited into Coutts in 1963 by its chairman, Sir Seymour Egerton, and joined the board in 1969, when it still operated in the mode of earlier days, with directors in black frock coats sharing an open office and dealing collectively with all aspects of business in fixed daily routines. But change followed the merger of Coutts’ parent National Provincial with Westminster Bank to form NatWest, and the arrival of the consultants McKinsey & Co to introduce a structure of divisional roles for individual directors….

Coutts’ historian, Edna Healey, recorded that in Bowes Lyon’s era – he retired in 1993 – the bank’s directors included two other cousins of the then Queen, the Marquess of Cambridge and Earl Granville: “All took their duties seriously for, as contemporaries frequently remarked, there was no room… for those who did not work their passage.” At the same time, his colleague also observed, “it seems to me that Alby really enjoyed himself.”

Michael Albemarle Bowes Lyon was born on May 29 1940, the second son of Michael Bowes Lyon and his wife Elizabeth, née Cator. Alby’s father Michael – a Royal Scots officer whose health never recovered from being a PoW during the First World War – was the eighth of 10 children (the future Queen Mother being the ninth) of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorn.

Their surname records an 18th-century marriage alliance between two landed dynasties, Lyon of Forfar (twice descended from Robert the Bruce) and Bowes of Co Durham. By a complex succession, Alby’s elder brother Fergus inherited as 17th Earl in 1972; their twin sisters became Lady Mary Colman (wife of the Garter knight Sir Timothy) and Lady Patricia Tetley.

Though his childhood home was at Biggleswade, much of Alby’s early life was spent at Glamis Castle, the family seat which had a special place in his heart. He was a page to Princess Margaret at the coronation in 1953…

Loved for his gentle demeanour and lively sense of humour, Bowes Lyon was a regular guest of his aunt at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park and Birkhall on the Balmoral estate. In later life he travelled tirelessly to explore historical sites, shoot game and watch opera, especially Wagner and Richard Strauss, often combining all three passions with visits to former clients.

He was generous in support of a range of charities and maintained a strong Christian faith with a preference for the Book of Common Prayer, often attending Holy Communion at St Martin-in-the-Fields, close to his Whitehall flat.

In his mid-thirties, Alby Bowes Lyon told the Coutts staff magazine: “I may be a bachelor now, but I certainly don’t intend to remain so.” In fact he did, while devoting himself to wider family life as a favourite uncle and cousin, constantly in touch and always interested in the lives of the young. Pipers played for his burial at Glamis.    

Albemarle Bowes Lyon, born May 29 1940, died October 30 2023