Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Earl of Scarbrough | |
Birth Date: | 18 May 1973 |
Father: | Richard Lumley |
Richard Osbert Lumley, 13th Earl of Scarbrough (born 18 May 1973), known as Viscount Lumley until 2004, is a British peer and landowner.
The elder son of Richard Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough, and his wife Lady Elizabeth, Lumley was educated at Eton College[1] and was a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1 March 1989 to 1 January 1991. He succeeded his father in 2004.[2] In 2007, he married Henrietta Elfrida Helen Boyson.Scarbrough was appointed a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of South Yorkshire on 11 April 2011.[3]
He lives at Sandbeck Park, near Maltby, South Yorkshire, and takes an active part in local charities, including serving as Patron of the Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind.[4] The Sandbeck Park estate was reported in 2007 to cover about 5,000 acres.[5] The house is near Maltby Colliery, a large deep coal mine which closed in 2013.
Scarbrough also owns the former family seat of Lumley Castle, which is now a hotel and restaurant. In 2013, it had 73 bedrooms.[6]