Katherine Bowes Lyon

[cgc]

Does anyone know whether there was more than one Katherine Bowes-Lyon?

The reason I ask is that any Google search I do comes up with the famous one, the sister of Nerissa, who was supposedly in Earlswood Hospital in Surrey from 1941.

However I recently saw a visitors book up for sale at auction which clearly had the signature of Katherine Bowes Lyon on the 21st of August 1946.

Was there more than one Katherine?

 

[CyrilVladisla]

There was an Edith Katherine Selby-Bigge Bowes-Lyon (1889-1971). She was the wife of Captain Geoffrey Bowes-Lyon.

 

[Gawin]

There was an Edith Katherine Selby-Bigge Bowes-Lyon (1889-1971). She was the wife of Captain Geoffrey Bowes-Lyon.

Newspapers referred to her as Mrs. Katherine Bowes-Lyon, so I think you found the right person. In the 1950s she ran a coffee lounge in Mayfair where she also sold butter and cream from her son-in-law's farm.

 

[cgc]

Thanks for the replies. I think that's the mystery solved.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Geoffrey Bowes-Lyon is the son of The Honourable Francis Bowes-Lyon (1856-1948). Francis was a son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore. Thus Geoffrey and Francis are related to Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore.