after having failed to show on parade for demobilisation. He later returned to his job in the city. On 19 June 1920, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Forfarshire. Death The Hon. John Bowes-Lyon died at the family home of Glamis Castle just after midnight on the morning of 7 February 1930 of pneumonia, aged 44, leaving his widow to care for their four young children. (Two of them, Nerissa and Katherine, were severely mentally disabled.) Three days later he was buried at St Paul's Walden Bury. His widow was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She outlived him by thirty-six years and died on 19 July 1966, aged 76. References 1886 births 1930 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of New College, Oxford British Army personnel of World War I Black Watch officers British stockbrokers John Herbert Deaths from pneumonia in Scotland Oxford University cricketers English cricketers Deputy Lieutenants of Forfarshire Younger sons of earls