Patrick Bowes-Lyon was a British male tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

, the mother of Elizabeth II.

Bowes-Lyon was Scottish

Scotland

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 tennis champion in 1885, 1886 and 1888. In 1887 he and Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce was a British male tennis player and chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club . In 1887 he and Patrick Bowes-Lyon won the doubles in Wimbledon. He was the grandson of abolitionist William Wilberforce....

 won the doubles in Wimbledon. As a younger brother of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD, was a landowner and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II....

, who was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's father, he was a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...

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He was the fifth of the seven sons and the eleven children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne , styled The Honourable from 1847 to 1865, was a British peer. He was the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne....

 and of Frances Dora Smith. He married Alice Wiltshire, the daughter of George Wiltshire, on 9 August 1893. He was, by profession, a barrister

Barrister

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 at the Inner Temple

Inner Temple

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He and his wife Alice had four children:

1. Lt. Gavin Patrick (born 13 December 1895, killed in action November 1917)
2. Angus Patrick (born 22 October 1899, died 10 July 1923)
3. Jean Barbara (born 9 October 1904, died 7 January 1963)
4. Margaret Ann (born 14 June 1907, died 14 August 1999) married 2 June 1946 Lt. Col. Francis Arthur Philip D'Abreu (born 1 October 1904, died 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 (born 16 February 1950, died 17 April 1995).