Lady Sibell Lumley

Born on 25 March 1855, Lady Sibell Mary Lumley was the daughter of Richard George Lumley, from 1856 the 9th Earl of Scarbrough and Frederica Mary Adeliza née Drummond.

On 3 November 1874 she married Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, eldest son of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and Lady Constance Gertrude née Sutherland-Leveson-Gower.

Her first husband died on 22 January 1884 at the age of 30.

She married secondly on 7 February 1887 the Rt. Hon. George Wyndham, son of the Honourable Percy Scawen Wyndham. From 1889 to 1913 her husband was the Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Dover.

Lady Sibell Wyndham died on 4 February 1929.

‘Countess Grosvenor, mother of the Duke of Westminster, died at her home, Saighton Grange, near Chester, yesterday, at the age of 73.

‘Before her marriage, in 1874, to the Earl of Grosvenor, eldest son of the first Duke of Westminster, she was Lady Sibell Mary Lumley, fourth daughter of the ninth Earl of Scarborough [sic]. The Earl of Grosvenor died in 1884.

‘The Countess had one son, the Duke of Westminster, and two daughters from this marriage. She married again in 1887 the Right Hon. George Wyndham, MP’ (Sheffield Independent, 5 February 1929).