Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent a Lion rampant Azure armed and langued Gules within a Double Tressure flory counterflory of the second (for Lyon); 3rd and 4th, Ermine three Bows strings palewise proper (for Bowes); as a Royal Augmentation, granted to the holder of the Earldom only, an Inescutcheon en surtout Azure thereon a Rose Argent barbed Vert seeded Or ensigned with an Imperial Crown proper within a Double Tressure flory counterflory of the second, the said Inescutcheon ensigned with an Earl's Coronet proper.
Creation date
1606 (Scottish title) 1937 (British title)
Peerage
Peerage of Scotland (1606) Peerage of the United Kingdom (1937)
First holder
Patrick Lyon, 1st Earl of Kinghorne
Present holder
Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th and 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Heir presumptive
The Hon. John Fergus Bowes-Lyon
Subsidiary titles
Viscount Lyon Lord Lyon and Glamis Lord Glamis Lord Glamis, Tannadyce, Sidlaw and Strathdichtie Baron Bowes
Seat(s)
Glamis Castle
Former seat(s)
Gibside Streatlam Castle St Paul's Walden Bury
Motto
In Te Domine Speravi ("In Thee, O Lord, have I put my trust")
Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne is a title in the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The earl is also Chief of Clan Lyon.
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