Patrick Lyon, 1st Earl of Kinghorn

Patrick Lyon, 1st Earl of Kinghorne (c. 1575 – 1615) was a Scottish landowner. Patrick Lyon was the son of John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis and Elizabeth Abernethy, only daughter of Alexander Abernethy, 6th Lord Saltoun. The spiral stair at Glamis Castle was the work of Patrick Lyon, Earl of Kinghorne His father was killed in 1578 by a gunshot wound to the head during a fight in the streets of Stirling with the followers of David Lindsay, 11th Earl of Crawford. Crawford was a good shot and Glamis presented an easy target as he was so tall, according to the historian David Hume of Godscroft.[1] His uncle Thomas, Master of Glamis became head of the family, and tutor and curator of the young Lord Glamis.

When Patrick Lyon 1st of Earl of Strathmore was born in 1575, in Glamis Castle, Forfarshire, Scotland, his father, John Lyon 8th Lord of Glamis, was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth Abernethy Lady Glamis, was 40. He married Lady Anne Murray in June 1595, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 19 December 1615, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, at the age of 40, and was buried in Glamis, Forfarshire, Scotland.

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