James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore (circa 1702 – 1735) was a Scottish peer and freemason.

He was the son of John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Lady Elizabeth Stanhope. He was christened on 24 December 1702. He succeeded as Earl of Strathmore following the stabbing of Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in a drunken altercation in 1728.^[1] On 6 March 1731 he married Mary Oliphant, daughter of Charles Oliphant (brother of William Oliphant, 11th Lord Oliphant. He died without issue on 4 January 1735 at Edinburgh, Scotland.

He was succeeded as earl by his younger brother, Thomas (1704–53), ancestor of Elizabeth Bowes – Lyon, the Queen Mother.

Ancestry

Ancestors of James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

17. Lady Anne Murray

9. Lady Elizabeth Maule

19. Frances Stanhope

20. Robert Middleton

21. Elizabeth Strachan

5. Lady Helen Middleton

22. James Durham

11. Grizel Durham

23. Janet Wishart

1. James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

25. Catherine Hastings

27. Mary Throckmorton

15. Lady Elizabeth Preston, 2nd Lady Dingwall

31. Lady Elizabeth Butler

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Charles Lyon	Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	Succeeded by Thomas Lyon
Masonic offices
Preceded by Anthony Browne, 7th Viscount Montagu	Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England 1733	Succeeded by John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford

↑ Matthew Forster Conolly, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife of Past and Present Times, 1866, p. 309

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