Lt.-Col. Edward James Machell Lumb (13 November 1863 – 22 September 1962) was a British soldier and civil servant.

[6] He served in the British Army,[7] achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2nd Life Guards under Sir Cecil Edward Bingham.

Catherine Elizabeth Ellen Horsley-Beresford (1870–1948) at the Church of St Michael le Belfrey, York.

[9] They lived at 4 Hereford Gardens, Park Lane West and at Homewood, Whitehaven in Cumberland.

At time, Lumb and Lord Camoys were reported to have "had nothing but flattering things to say of America and American women.