Frances Dora Bowes-Lyon Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (née Smith; 29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922) was a British noblewoman. She was the paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and thus a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.Her father was Oswald Smith of Blendon Hall (7 July 1794 – 18 June 1863) and her mother was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (c. 1805–1891).