[2] It was endowed by deed of Frances, Viscountess Lumley, an ancestor of the Earl of Scarborough, in 1657, and the buildings completed in about 1680.

[3][4] It has school links worldwide, particularly within Tanzania, Morocco, China and France.

[citation needed] In 2019, the Ofsted Inspection Report rated Lady Lumley's school as inadequate.

[10] In the 1940s, pupils carried out an archaeological excavation of the nearby mediaeval hospital of St Nicholas.

[11] In the first half of the twentieth century, the then headmaster of the school, F Austin Hyde, was an expert on the dialect of the area.