Owners of Gibside
1722 – 1760 George Bowes (1701-1760)
1760 – 1767 Trustees for Mary Eleanor Bowes
1767 – 1776 John Bowes (formerly Lyon) 9th Earl of Strathmore, husband of Mary Eleanor
1777 – 1786 Andrew Robinson Bowes (formerly Stoney) 2nd husband of Mary Eleanor
1753 – 1776 9th Earl: John Bowes (1737-1776) husband of Mary Eleanor
1776 - 1820 10th Earl: John Bowes (1769–1820) son of 9th Earl and Mary Eleanor
On the 10th Earl's death, his brother challenged the succession to the earldom and won, so the Earl's son, aged 9 at the time of his death, was prevented from inheriting the title and the Scottish properties.
1820 - 1831 Trustees for the 10th Earl's son by Mary Milner, 'Plain' John Bowes (1811-1885)
1820 – 1846 11th Earl: Thomas Lyon-Bowes (1773–1846) brother of the 10th Earl
1846 – 1865 12th Earl: Thomas Lyon-Bowes (1822–1865) grandson of the 11th Earl
1865 – 1904 13th Earl: Claude Bowes-Lyon (1824–1904) brother of the 12th Earl
1904 – 1944 14th Earl: Claude George Bowes-Lyon (1855–1944) son of 13th Earl
1944 – 1949 15th Earl: Patrick Bowes-Lyon (1884–1949) son of 14th Earl
1949 – 1972 16th Earl: Timothy Bowes-Lyon (1918–1972)
1972 – 1987 17th Earl: Fergus Michael Claude Bowes-Lyon (1928–1987) first cousin of the 16th Earl, grandson of the 14th Earl, who signed over the Chapel to the National Trust in 1974.
Below is a pedigree of the descendants of George Bowes, from Gibside and the Bowes Family by Margaret Wills.
