Hon. Osbert Lumley

Born on 18 July 1862, the Honourable Osbert Victor George Atheling Lumley was the third son (and seventh child) of Richard George Lumley, from 1856 the 9th Earl of Scarbrough. His mother was Frederic Mary Adeliza née Drummond, daughter of Andrew Robert Drummond.

On 3 May 1892 he married Constance Ellinor Wilson Patten, eldest daughter of Captain Eustace John Wilson Patten of the 1st Life Guards. Their marriage produced four children. Their eldest son was killed in action during the First World War.

He died on 14 December 1923, leaving an estate valued at £9531.

‘We regret to announce the death of Brigadier-General the Hon. Osbert Lumley, CMG, brother of the Earl of Scarbrough, which took place, at the age of 61 years, at Ruffed Abbey, Notts, on Friday. The cause of death was heart failure following pleuro-pneumonia, which resulted from a severe chill caught during the general election, when his son and heir, Mr Lawrence Roger Lumley, was re-elected Conservative Member for East Hull.

‘General Lumley, who was heir-presumptive of the Earl of Scarbrough, He was also brother of the Marchioness of Zetland. […] General Lumley joined the 11th Hussars as a subaltern, and eventually rose to command of the regiment, which he held for four years — from 1900 to 1904 — part of which period was spent in Egypt. Later he was Colonel-in-Charge of Cavalry Records (Hussars). He retired before the war broke out, but was recalled and given the command of the 2nd Reserve Cavalry Brigade at Tidworth, with the rank of Brigadier-General. He relinquished this command in 1918. Although he spent much time in Egypt and India, he was well known in Yorkshire. He was fond of hunting, and rode with the York and Ainsty pack when he acted as ADC to Sir Reginald Thynne. He acted as military private secretary to the Marquess of Zetland when the Marquess was Viceroy of Ireland’ (Yorkshire Post and Leeds IntelligencerM, 17 December 1923).

Photographed by Hills and Saunders of Eton and Oxford.