Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough

Who was Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough?

Major-General Aldred Frederick George Beresford Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough, KG, GBE, KCB, GStJ was a British peer and soldier. His first name is sometimes rendered as Alfred, not Aldred.

Lumley was the son of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough and was educated at Eton. He was Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1892 to 1904 and commanded the 7th Hussars, the Yorkshire Dragoons and the Yorkshire Mounted Brigade during the Boer War in 1900 and afterwards became an aide-de-camp to King Edward VII in 1902. He was Director-General of the Territorial Force until his retirement in 1921.

On 8 April 1899, Scarbrough married Lucy Cecilia Dunn-Gardner, widow of Col. Robert Ashton. His wife brought a stepson and stepdaughter to their marriage, and gave birth to a single daughter Lady Serena Lumley. Lucy was the daughter of Cecil Dunn-Gardner.

The Countess's father was probably Cecil Dunn-Gardner, formerly of the 13th light Dragoons. If the identification is correct, he was the third surviving son of the brewer John Margetts and his bigamous wife Sarah Dunn-Gardner, Marchioness Townshend, and the younger brother of John Dunn Gardner MP.