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'''Richard Lumley, 1st Viscount Lumley''' (7 April 1589 – 12 March 1663) was an English [[Cavalier|royalist]] and military commander. He was the grandfather of [[Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Courthope|first1=William|title=Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ru4UAAAAQAAJ|publisher=J. G. & F. Rivington|access-date=16 September 2016|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ru4UAAAAQAAJ/page/n173 103]|date=1838}}</ref>
Richard Lumley was baptized at [[Chester-le-Street]], [[County Palatine of Durham|County Durham]], on 7 July 1589, the son of Roger Lumley and Anne (''née'' Kurtswich), and grandson of Anthony Lumley.<ref name="milner">{{cite book|last1=Milner|first1=Edith|title=Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle|url=https://archive.org/details/b28035999|publisher=G. Bell|access-date=16 September 2016|pages=[https://archive.org/details/b28035999/page/101 101]–103|date=1904}}</ref> He was the great-grandson of [[Richard Lumley, 3rd Baron Lumley]] who was summoned to Parliament in 1509. (The 3rd Baron's father, Thomas, predeceased the 3rd Baron's grandfather, [[George Lumley, 3rd Baron Lumley|George the 2nd Baron]]). He was a first cousin of [[John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley]].<ref name="ant">{{cite book|title=Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rzFRAAAAYAAJ|publisher=Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne|page=201|date=1917}}</ref>
He was a loyalist to the crown during the time of the English Civil Wars. He made the family seat, [[Lumley Castle]], into a [[garrison]]. He was made principal commander under [[Prince Rupert of the Rhine|Prince Rupert]], and marched into the west of England and fought at the [[Siege of Bristol (1645)|Siege of Bristol]] where he remained until Rupert surrendered it in 1645.<ref name="dict">{{cite book|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2FHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA976|publisher=Henry Colburn|access-date=16 September 2016|page=976|language=en|date=1868}}</ref>
For his loyalty to the crown, Lumley was knighted by [[James VI and I|King James]] on 19 July 1616 at [[Theobalds House|Theobalds]].<ref name="milner"/> On 12 July 1628, he was created '''Viscount Lumley''' of [[Waterford]] in the [[Peerage of Ireland]].<ref name="dict"/> On 25 April 1660, Lumley was among the group of loyalists who issued a declaration in Parliament to support the King's [[Declaration of Breda]].
He married Frances, daughter of Henry Shelley of [[Warminghurst|Warminghurst Park]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2/pp461-476 |website=British History Online}}</ref>
Their daughter, Julia, married [[Sir Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baronet]] of Horden.<ref>{{cite web|title=Admissions to Peterhouse Or S. Peter's College in the University of Cambridge: A Biographical Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GsagAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA53|publisher=University of Cambridge|page=53|language=en|date=1 January 1912}}</ref> Their son, the Hon. John Lumley, predeceased his father in 1658. Viscount Lumley was succeeded in the viscountcy by his grandson, who was made the first [[Earl of Scarbrough]] in 1690.<ref name="dict"/> Richard's second wife in 1630 was Elizabeth Sandys (née Cornwallis) who in 1657 endowed a grammar school in [[Pickering, North Yorkshire|Pickering]], which continues today as Lady Lumley's School.
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