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From the Book of Eminent Burgesses of Dundee 1513 to 1885.
Claude, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne - 1st October 1874
THE RIGHT HON. CLAUDE, EARL OF STRATHMORE AND KINGHORNE, LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF FORFAR, WAS ADMITTED BURGESS IN TESTIMONY OF THE RESPECT ENTERTAINED BY THE COUNCIL FOR HIS CHARACTER AND PUBLIC SERVICES.
By the death of Fox MAULE, EARL OF DALHOUSIE, on 6th July, 1874 (vide page 282), the Lord Lieutenancy of Forfarshire became vacant, and the present EARL OF STRATHMORE was appointed to that important office, which he still administers. Shortly after his Lordship's appointment, the Town Council presented him with the freedom of the burgh, at a meeting held on 26th October, 1874, in the Hall of the Albert Institute, the Burgess Ticket being enclosed in a silver casket bearing an inscription similar to that entered on the Burgess Roll.
CLAUDE BOWES LYON, thirteenth EARL OF STRATHMORE AND KINGHORNE, is the Second son of GEORGE, LORD GLAMIS (nat. 1801, ob. 1834), and the grandson of THOMAS, eleventh EARL OF STRATHMORE. He was born on 21st July, 1824, and was educated at Winchester and at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1848 he was gazetted Lieutenant in the 2nd Life Guards, and retired from the Army in 1854. On the death of his elder brother, without issue, on 13th September, 1865, he succeeded to the title of EARL OF STRATHMORE AND KINGHORNE. He was elected a Representative Peer for Scotland in 1870, and has been re elected at every Parliament since that time. As his title was a Scottish one, the EARL had no seat in the House of Lords except by election; but at the recent distribution of honours in commemoration of the Jubilee of QUEEN VICTORIA he was made a Peer of the United Kingdom, under the style and title of BARON BOWES of Streatlam, in the County of Durham, and Lunedale, in the County of York, and his seat in the Upper House is now hereditary. LORD STRATHMORE has ever taken an active interest in the affairs of the County, and in the commercial progress of Dundee, and has long been a member of the Harbour Board. He is the direct descendant of PATRICK, third EARL OF KINGHORNE, who was made a Burgess on 19th July, 1660 (vide page 164), and the names of many of his kinsmen may be found inscribed upon the Burgess Roll.
LORD STRATHMORE was married in 1853 to FRANCES DORA, daughter of OSWALD SMITH, Esquire of Blendon Hall, Kent, and has seven sons and three daughters.