Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough

(Lawrence) Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, KG, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, DL TD (27 July 1896 – 29 June 1969) was a British Conservative statesman.

Lumley was the son of Brigadier General Osbert Lumley. He himself saw service in World War I with the 11th Hussars in France, 1916–1918. He continued to be attached to the Yorkshire Dragoons, 1921–1937.

Lumley sat in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hull East 1922–29, then York 1931–37. In 1923 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to William Ormsby-Gore, from 1924–26 to Sir Austen Chamberlain and subsequently to Anthony Eden. In 1937, he was appointed Governor of Bombay, serving until 1943. Upon his return from India, Lumley served as acting Major-General in World War II. Following the War, he continued his connections with the Army, as an honorary colonel.

He succeeded to the Earldom of Scarbrough in 1945 following the death of his uncle. He served as Lord Chamberlain from 1952 to 1963 and chancellor of the University of Durham from 1958 to 1969. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1948.

Lumley was a freemason and, from 1951 to 1967 served as the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England.

He is the second cousin twice removed of British actress Joanna Lumley.

One of his daughters Lady Anne Katharine Gabrielle Lumley (1928–2006) married Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley and had by him four children including science writer Matt Ridley, who was also chairman of Northern Rock Bank until the financial scandal which forced him to step down.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Scarbrough

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Murchison	Member of Parliament for Hull East 1922–1929	Succeeded by George Muff
Preceded by Frederick George Burgess	Member of Parliament for York 1931–1937	Succeeded by Charles Ingram Courtenay Wood
Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Brabourne	Governor of Bombay 1937–1943	Succeeded by Sir David Colville
Preceded by Earl of Listowel	Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma 1945	Succeeded by Arthur Hendersom
Preceded by The Earl of Clarendon	Lord Chamberlain 1952–1963	Succeeded by The Lord Cobbold
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Harewood	Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1948–1969	Succeeded by Kenneth Hargreaves
Masonic offices
Preceded by The Duke of Devonshire	Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England 1951–1967	Succeeded by The Duke of Kent
Academic offices
Preceded by George Macaulay Trevelyan	Chancellor of the University of Durham 1958–1969	Succeeded by Malcolm Macdonald
Peerage of England
Preceded by Alfred Lumley	Earl of Scarbrough 1945–1969	Succeeded by Richard Lumley