SCARBROUGH. 75 6 tli Dragoon Guards), but resigned in 1GS7. when he became a Protestant and took part with the Prince of Orange, for whom he was one of the " Nobility in Arms,"( a ) retiring for him the town of Newcastle, and being one of aeven( b ) who in June 1688 bad signed the invitation to hiin to come over to England. He was accordingly, in 1689, marie l'.C. ; Gent, of the Bedchamber ; Col. of the 1st troop of Horse Guards ; L-Lieiit. and Vice-Admiral of Northumberland, being also in that year cr. 10 April 1689 VISCOUNT LUMLEY OK LUMLEY CASTLE, co. Durham, and a few months later, 15 April 1670, EARL OK SCAUBUOUGH ; L.- Lieut, of the Bishopric of Durham 1690. He served in Ireland at the battle of the Boyne, and afterwards in Flanders, becoming finally (1695) Lieut General, but retiring from active service in 1697, after the peace of KyBwiok. He was l'.C. to Queen Aune and to George I. ; a Cominr. for the Union [S.] 1706 ; one of the Lords Justices (Kegents) of Englaud( c ) 1 Aug. to 18 Sep. 1714. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1716-17, and Paymaster Geu. of Ireland. May to Sep. 1717. lie »i.( d ) 17 March 1684/5 (Lie. Vic. Geu.), Prances (then aged 19) da. and h. of Sir Henry Jonks, of Aston, co. Oxon, by Frances, sister of Thomas, 2d Viscount KaUcon'Ukrg ok Hknknowle, da. of the Hon. Henry Bki.asysb. He d 17 Dec. 1721, and was bur. 1 Jan. 1721/2, at Chester- U-street, co. Durham.( c ) Will dat. 11 Jan. 1716 to April 1718, pr. 22 Dec. 1721. His widow, who was one of the ladies of the Bedchamber to Mary II. and Queen Aune d. 7 Aug. 1722. Will dat. 9 June to 11 Aug. 1716, pr. 9 Jan. 1722/3. [HENRT I.UJILEV, ahjh'rf VlSCoUNT L.UMLEY, 1st s. mil 1]. sip. ; WHS M V. for Arundel, 170S-10. He d. num. and v.p. of the small poxf) and was bur. 26 April 17 1U (near his paternal grandfather) at St. Martin's in the fields.] II. 1721. S. Richard (Lumley), Earl of Scarbrough, &c., also Viscount Lumley OF Watkiifoiid [I.], 2d but 1st surv. s. and h., 6. about 1688 ; M.P. for East Grinstead, 1708-10, and for Arundel, 1710-15 ; styled Viscount Lumlry, 1710-21 ; Vice Admiral of co. Durham, 1710 ; a Lord of the Bed- chamber to the Prince of Wales, 1714, and Master of the Horse to him, 1714-27 ; Col. of 1st Horse Gren. Guards, 1715-17 ; Col. of the Coldstream Poot Guards, 1722, becoming finally (1739) Lieut. Gen. in the army. He was sum. to Pari, v.p., 4 March 1715, in his father's Barony (as Loud Lu.MLEY) by writ directed "Richard Lumley of Lumley, co. jMtrham, Chevalier ; " L. Lieut, of Northumberland, 1721 ; sue. his father us Karl of Scarbrough, &c, 17 Dec. 1721 ; el. and inv. K G. 9 and inst., July 1724 ; P.C., Cabinet Minister, and Master of the Horse, 1727-34 ; cr. LL.D. of Cambridge, 25 April 1728. He rf uum., having committed suicide(s) at his house iu Grosvenor square, 29 Jan. 1739/40, and was bur, 4 Feb. in St. George's chapel, in Audley street..( h ) Will pr. 1740. (") See list of them in vol. i, p. 28, note " b," tub " Abingdon." {^) See their names in vol. vi, p. 35, note " c," tub " Leeds." (e) See vol. iii, p. 116, note " b," tub " Devonshire," for a list of these. (°) With consent of Sir John Talbot, her guardian, her parents being dead. The lie. is to marry at St. Michael Queenhithe. (°) Macky [" Characters "] says of him " when turned of 50 years old " that he had "sold or epiitted " all his employments before Queen Mary died, and that he was ' a gentleman of very good sense, a great lover of the constitution of his country and an improver of trade— his genius lay very much this way — a handsome man, of a brown complexion." There is a portrait of him at Lumley Castle. 0 He is spoken of in the Wentworth papers as " that pigmy Lord Lumley," and Pope in 1710 writes that "since the deaths of Lord Lumley and Mr. Lytton, I am one of the least men in England." ( B ) This was the day before that fixed for his marriage with Isabella, Dow. Duchess of Manchester, a widow since Oct. 1739. Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu considered the Earl's engagement to her " not as the cause but sign that he was mad." ( ) Lord Hervey [" Memoirs "] speaks of him as " a man of figure, character, and houour . . , one of the best speakers of his time in the House of Lords . . . gave weight not only by his words but by his character to any cause he maintained." Wd Chesterfield [" C huracttrs "] says "he had in the highest degree the air,
