# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lumley, Richard

1904 Errata appended.
​LUMLEY, RICHARD, first Earl of Scarborough (d. 1721), was son of John Lumley (d. 1658), by Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Compton. Henry Lumley [q. v.] was his younger brother. The grandfather, Richard Lumley, first Viscount Lumley of Waterford (d. 1661?), was grandson of Anthony Lumley, who was brother of John, fifth (or sixth) Baron Lumley (1493–1544) [q. v.]; was knighted by James I at Theobalds, 19 July 1616, and on 12 July 1628 was created Viscount Lumley of Waterford in the peerage of Ireland. He took the king's side in the civil war. After garrisoning Lumley Castle, he proceeded to Bristol with Prince Rupert, actively aided in its defence, and was present at its surrender on 10 Sept. 1645. He afterwards compounded for his estate, and seems to have died about 1661. He was buried at Cheam, Surrey. By his wife, Frances, daughter of Henry Shelley of Warminghurst Park, Sussex, he left a son John, who predeceased him in 1658, and a daughter Julia.
Richard Lumley, the grandson, was educated a Roman catholic, went beyond seas in October 1654, and, coming to court at the Restoration, became a favourite of Charles II. He was a volunteer for the abortive Tangier expedition of 1680. From 11 Sept. 1680 to 23 Feb. 1681–2, he was master of the horse to Queen Catherine, in place of the Earl of Feversham, and seems to have held at the time a commission in the 1st troop of horse-guards. On 31 May 1681 he was created Baron Lumley of Lumley Castle in the peerage of ​England, and on 25 Oct. 1684 he became treasurer to the queen in place of Lord Clarendon. When Monmouth's rebellion broke out, Lumley collected a troop of horse in Hampshire, and several troops of Sussex militia, and went to Ringwood, Hampshire. Parties of his men captured Grey on the 7th, and Monmouth on 8 July 1685. Lumley's troop of horse was united with other troops to form the regiment of carabineers, of which Lumley was made colonel, his commission dating 31 July 1685; it is now the 6th dragoon guards. Dissatisfaction with James's policy led Lumley, however, in January 1686–7, to lay down his commission. In 1687 he became a protestant, and in the early part of 1688 he entered into communication with William's friends. He supported the seven bishops, and on 31 June 1688 he signed the invitation to William. At the revolution he was directed to secure the north for William. James sent fruitless orders to his supporters at York to effect his capture, and in December Lumley seized Newcastle. In the debates on the sovereignty he supported the resolution declaring the throne vacant. He became a privy councillor 14 Feb. 1688–9, a gentleman of the bedchamber 23 Feb. 1688–9, and colonel of the 1st troop of horse-guards on 2 April 1689. In 1689 also he was made lord-lieutenant of the counties of Durham and Northumberland, and on 10 April 1689 was created Viscount Lumley, and 15 April 1690 Earl of Scarborough in the peerage of England. He served in Ireland at the battle of the Boyne, and afterwards in Flanders, becoming major-general 2 April 1692, and lieutenant-general 24 Oct. 1694. He had given up his regiment to Albemarle in 1690, and seems to have retired from active service after the peace of Ryswick (1697). Queen Anne continued him in his appointments, and he was sworn of her privy council. On 10 May 1708 he was one of the commissioners for the union. He resigned his lieutenancies in 1712, and was reappointed and readmitted to the privy council by George I. On 21 Nov. 1714 he was made a member of the court-martial which settled the seniority of the regiments, and on 9 March 1715–16 became chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, resigning office in May 1717, and receiving instead the vice-treasurership of Ireland jointly with Mathew Ducie Moreton, afterwards first Lord Ducie. He died on 17 Dec. 1721, and was buried at Chester-le-Street, Durham. His portrait is at Lumley Castle.
Lumley married Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Jones of Aston, Oxfordshire, and by her had seven sons and four daughters. His second son, Richard Lumley, who succeeded him, was summoned to the House of Lords on 10 March 1713–14, was installed K.G. 28 July 1724, became lieutenant-general in the army 2 July 1739, and died unmarried 29 Jan. 1739–40.
[Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. iv.; Richardson's Table Book, i. 356; Luttrell's Brief Hist. Relation, vols. i. ii.; Bramston's Diary (Camd. Soc.), pp. 267 &c.; Reresby's Memoirs, pp. 233 &c.; Cannon's Hist. Records 1st Life Guards and 6th Dragoon Guards; Macaulay's Hist. vol. i.; Beatson's Polit. Index, vol. ii.; Evelyn's Diary, i. 329, ii. 1, 226, 266; Surtees's Hist. of Durham, ii. 162 &c.; Haydn's Book of Dignities.]
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