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Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (July 21, 1824 - February 16, 1904) was a British peer. He was the 13th holder of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

He was born in Redburn, Hertfordshire. He was the second surviving son of Thomas George Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis (son of the 11th Earl) and his wife Charlotte Grimstead.

His paternal grandparents were Thomas Bowes-Lyon, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his first wife Mary Elizabeth Louisa Rodney Carpenter. His maternal grandparents were Joseph Valentine Grimstead and Charlotte Sarah Jane Walsh.

On 28 September 1853, Claude married Frances Dora Smith. Together they had 11 children:

• Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (14 March 1855 - 7 November 1944). He was the father of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen consort of King George VI and through her, maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
• Francis Bowes-Lyon (23 February 1856 - 18 February 1948). Married Lady Anne Catherine Sybil Lindsay, daughter of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.
• Ernest Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1858 - 27 December 1891). Married Isobel Hester Drummond, a male-line descendant of James Drummond, 1st Lord Madderty.
• Herbert Bowes-Lyon (15 August 1860 - 14 April 1897).
• Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 - 5 October 1946). A Major of the British Army. He married Alice Wiltshire, daughter of George and Charlotte Wiltshire.
• Constance Frances Bowes-Lyon (1865 - 19 November 1951). Married Robert Francis Leslie Blackburn, son of Robert Blackburn.
• Kenneth Bowes-Lyon (26 April 1867 - 9 January 1911).
• Mildred Marion Bowes-Lyon (1868 - 9 June 1897). Married Augustus Edward Jessop.
• Maud Agness Bowes-Lyon (1870 - 28 February 1941).
• Evelyn Mary Bowes-Lyon (1872 - 15 March 1876).
• Malcolm Bowes-Lyon (23 April 1874 - 23 August 1957). A Lieutenant Colonel of the British Army. Married Winifred Gurdon Rebow, daughter of Hector John Gurdon-Rebow.

In 1865 he succeeded his elder brother Thomas. In 1887 he was created Baron Bowes, of Streatlam Castle and Lunedale, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was a Scottish representative peer from 1870 until 1892, and Lord Lieutenant of Angus from 1874 until his death.

• The peerage.com