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{{Short description|Anglo-Irish peer and soldier}}
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[[File:Earl of Scarbrough COA.svg|thumb|The [[coat of arms]] of the earls of Scarbrough]]
[[Lieutenant-Colonel]] '''Richard George Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough''' (7 May 1813 – 5 December 1884) was an [[Anglo-Irish]] [[peerage|peer]] and soldier.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title=Obituary |work=[[The Times]] |page=10 |date= 6 December 1884}}</ref>
==Biography==
He was born at [[Tickhill Castle]], the son and heir of Frederick Lumley-Saville (1788–1837), the only son of the fifth son of the [[Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough|fourth Earl of Scarbrough]]. His mother, Charlotte Mary (''née'' de la Poer Beresford), was the daughter of Rev. [[George Beresford (bishop)|George Beresford]], grandson of [[Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cokayne|first1=George|title=The Complete Peerage (Edition 1, Volume 7)|url=https://archive.org/stream/completepeerage07cokahrish/TN-313027_7#page/n77/mode/2up|via=archive.org|page=77|date=1895}}</ref><ref name="peerage">{{cite book|last1=Innes|first1=Anne|last2=Innes|first2=Eliza|last3=Innes|first3=Maria|title=The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing|year=1877|publisher=Hurst and Blackett, Publishers|page=526|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLEKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA526|accessdate=21 September 2016|language=en}}</ref>
Educated at [[Eton College]], he entered the army as a [[Cornet (rank)|Cornet]] in the [[Hussars]], and retired in 1837 as a [[Lieutenant-Colonel]] in the [[West Yorkshire]] [[Yeoman Cavalry]]. After retirement he entered politics as and sat in the [[House of Lords]] until he inherited the family titles in October 1856.<ref name="auto">Cockayne, G.E., ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Vol. XI'' (London, 1888), 514-5.</ref>
Lumley's predecessor, [[John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough]], died without legitimate children. Lumley inherited the  [[Earl of Scarbrough|earldom]]  of Scarbrough and barony of Lumley although he was only the first cousin once [[Cousin chart|removed]] from the eighth earl. He also inherited the [[Viscount Lumley|Viscountcy of Waterford]] in the [[Peerage of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Journals of the House of Lords|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsg4AQAAIAAJ|year=1885|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=92}}</ref>
Scarbrough added considerably to the family seat of [[Sandbeck Park]] in Yorkshire, which dated to the 17th century. In 1857, he hired [[William Burn]] to remodel and improve the house. In 1869, [[Benjamin Ferrey]] built a private chapel for the earl.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Sandbeck Park (House)|num=1314665|accessdate=21 September 2016}}</ref>
In 1878 the Earl engaged the architect [[James Whitton]] to design and layout a holiday resort on his estate at [[Skegness]].<ref>Lincolnshire Archives Office : Copy accounts of the Earl of Scarbrough with James Whitton re Skegness development 1878-1880.MISC DON 304/2</ref>
==Family==
In October 1846, he married Frederica Mary Adeliza Drummond, granddaughter of the [[John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland|fifth Duke of Rutland]];<ref name="times"/> she outlived Lumley, dying in 1907.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="armorial">{{cite book|last1=Fox-Davies|first1=Arthur Charles|title=Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage|year=1895|publisher=Jack|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029806241/page/n885 880]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029806241|accessdate=21 September 2016|language=en}}</ref>
They had three sons and four daughters. All four of his daughters married peers:
*Lady Algitha Frederica Mary (23 November 1847 – 22 June 1919), married William Orde-Powlett, 4th [[Baron Bolton]]
*Lady [[Ida Bridgeman, Countess of Bradford|Ida Frances Annabella]] (born 28 November 1848 – 22 August 1936), married [[George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford]]
*Lyulph Richard Grandby William, Viscount Lumley (7 June 1850 – 23 August 1868)
*Lady Lilian Selina Elizabeth (20 October 1851 – 24 December 1943) married [[Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland]]
*Lady Sibell Mary (25 March 1855 – 4 February 1929); married: firstly, Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor  (28 April 1853 – 22 January 1884), with whom she had [[Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster]]; secondly [[George Wyndham]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MP}}, [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]]
*[[Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough|Aldred Frederick George Beresford]]; later Viscount Lumley (16 November 1857 – 4 March 1945); married Cecilia Gardner
*Col. Osbert Victor George Atheling (16 November 1857 – 14 December 1923), married Constance Ellinor Wilson-Patten (1864-1933), granddaughter of [[John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh]]; father of the [[Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough|11th Earl]]
Scarbrough died at Sandbeck Park at age 71 and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest surviving son.<ref name="times"/>
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