Earl of Scarbrough

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Coat of arms of the Earls of Scarbrough
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough

Earl of Scarbrough is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England , named after the town of Scarborough in North Yorkshire .

The Earls' family seat was Lumley Castle in County Durham and is now Sandbeck Park in Maltby in South Yorkshire .

Award and subordinate titles

The title was created on April 15, 1690 for Richard Lumley, 2nd Viscount Lumley . He was one of the seven peers who had invited William of Orange in 1688 to cross over to England with an army.

In 1663 he had inherited the title Viscount Lumley , of Waterford , from his grandfather Sir Richard Lumley (1589-1663) , which was given to this in 1628 in the Peerage of Ireland . In addition, in the Peerage of England in 1681 he was raised to Baron Lumley , of Lumley Castle in the County of Durham , and in 1689 to Viscount Lumley , of Lumley Castle in the County of Durham.

List of the Earls of Scarbrough (1690)

Presumed title heir ( Heir Presumptive ) is the brother of the current Earl, the Hon. Thomas Henry Lumley (* 1980).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : 2550, p. 2 , April 17, 1690.

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