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Lawrence Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, (27 July 1896 – 29 June 1969) was a British
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politician and
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general.


Background

Lumley was the son of Brigadier General Osbert Lumley (1857–1923), youngest child and son of the 9th Earl. His mother was Constance Ellinor Wilson-Patten (1864–1933), granddaughter of John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh. He attended
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and
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.


Career

Lumley followed his father into the military, passing out from the
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. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the
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on 26 January 1916, and was promoted to
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on 26 July 1917. He served in France during
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. He was demobilised on 3 June 1919, with the rank of lieutenant, but retained a reserve lieutenant's commission in the 11th Hussars, as well as being attached to the Yorkshire Dragoons. From 1920 to 1921, he was attached to an Officer Training Corps (OTC) University Contingent, with the local rank of
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. Lumley sat in the
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as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull East 1922–29, then
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1931–37. In 1923 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to William Ormsby-Gore, from 1924 to 1926 to Sir
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and subsequently to
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. On 8 March 1931, he was promoted to captain in the reserves in both the 11th Hussars and the Yorkshire Dragoons. He was brevetted to the rank of
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in the Yorkshire Dragoons on 1 January 1937, and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration on 11 May. In 1937, he was appointed
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, serving until 1943, when he was appointed Knight Grand Commander of the
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. Upon his return from
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, Lumley served as acting Major-General in
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, serving as Chief of Civil Affairs,
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. Following the War, he continued his connections with the Army, as an honorary colonel. He succeeded to the Earldom of Scarbrough in 1945 following the death of his uncle. He served as
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from 1952 to 1963 and
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of the
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from 1958 to 1969. He was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1948. Outside politics, the Earl had a keen interest in Asian and African studies. He presided over the Interdepartmental Commission of Enquiry on Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies set up after the
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to consider how Britain might maintain and increase the links it had built up during the war in the geographical areas under the Commission's consideration. The Commission's report, presented in 1947, argued for considerable strengthening of university departments' capacity to carry out research and training related to these areas, and for significant funds to be made available to this end. However, after five years of strong growth following the presentation of the Scarbrough report, in 1952 much of the funding was withdrawn. Lumley was initiated into
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on 3 May 1923 in Apollo University Lodge No 357 in Oxford. From 1951 to 1967 he served as the Grand Master of the
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, during which time he was also made an honorary member of Isaac Newton University Lodge when attending its centenary. Lumley, alongside Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme was a Patron of the
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.


Family

Lumley married Katherine Isobel McEwen, sister of Sir John McEwen, 1st Baronet on 12 July 1922 at
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. They had five children:


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