Claude George Bowes-Lyon 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne KG KT GCVO TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944) was a landowner the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.From 1937 he was known as 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne because he was the 14th Earl in the peerage of Scotland but the 1st Earl in the peerage of the United Kingdom.