[1] He was an uncle to Queen Elizabeth II, although he died when she was a small child and before her sister Princess Margaret was born.
They had five daughters: Before the outbreak of World War I, Bowes-Lyon worked as a stockbroker in the City of London for the firm Rowe and Pitman.
Just prior to the Battle of Aubers Ridge in that year, he accidentally shot himself in his left forefinger; it was amputated the following day.
[6] Bowes-Lyon died at the family home of Glamis Castle just after midnight on the morning of 7 February 1930 of pneumonia, aged 43, leaving his widow to care for their four young children.
[8] Bowes-Lyon's widow, Fenella Trefusis, was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten.