Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard George Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough (7 May 1813 – 5 December 1884) was an Anglo-Irish peer and soldier.

[2][3] Educated at Eton College, he entered the army as a Cornet in the Hussars, and retired in 1837 as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the West Yorkshire Yeoman Cavalry.

[6] In 1878 the Earl engaged the architect James Whitton to design and layout a holiday resort on his estate at Skegness.

[7] In October 1846, he married Frederica Mary Adeliza Drummond, granddaughter of the fifth Duke of Rutland;[1] she outlived Lumley, dying in 1907.

All four of his daughters married peers: Scarbrough died at Sandbeck Park at age 71 and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest surviving son.