Richard Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough

Who was Richard Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough?

Richard Aldred Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough, styled Viscount Lumley between 1945 and 1969, was an English nobleman.

He was the son of Lawrence Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, whom he succeeded in 1969. Scarbrough was Lord Lieutenant of South Yorkshire from 1996 until 2004. In 1970 he married Lady Elizabeth Anne Ramsay, oldest child and daughter of Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie and had a daughter and three sons. He died on 23 March 2004 at age 71 at Sandbeck and was succeeded by his son, Richard Osbert Lumley, 13th Earl of Scarbrough.