John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne [SEP] date of birth
John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1696 – 13 November 1715) was a Scottish peer and nobleman. He was the son of John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He died fighting with the Jacobites in The Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715.
Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (c. 1699 – 11 May 1728) was a Scottish peer and nobleman. He was the son of John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. His exact date of birth is unknown but he was baptised on 12 July 1699.
Although his brother John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne was to display the family’s royalist sympathies when he joined the Jacobite cause, and was slain at the battle of