Lumley himself was a scholar, translator and book collector, who supported the literary activities of his wife.
The couple first lived at Lumley Castle in Durham, and then joined Arundel in Nonsuch Palace where Jane nursed her father through illness before predeceasing him.
[2] Lady Lumley's scholarship and learning gained her a considerable contemporary reputation.
She translated selected orations of Isocrates from Greek into Latin, and Euripides's Iphigeneia at Aulis from Erasmus's Latin translation, possibly also consulting the original Greek text, into English.
With the death of Jane, her nephew, Philip Howard was left the sole heir to the titles and all of the vast estates of the FitzAlan family, including the Arundel Castle, estates which Philip received after his death of Henry in February 1580.