James Rutherford Lumley

Major-general Sir James Rutherford Lumley KCB (1773–1846) was an English soldier of the Bengal Army in British India.

A son of the Reverend James Lumley and his wife Alice Rutherford, he was baptised on 22 December 1773 at Longford, Shropshire.

[1] Lumley was commissioned into the Honourable East India Company’s Bengal Infantry[2] and by 1824 was a lieutenant-colonel.

[4] He was adjutant general of the Bengal army which defeated the Mahrattas in 1844 and soon after that was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his services.

In 1873, William Brownrigg Lumley was a retired Captain of the Indian Army.