Richard Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough

Richard Aldred Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough (5 December 1932 – 23 March 2004), styled Viscount Lumley between 1945 and 1969, was an English nobleman.

The eldest son of Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, Lumley was educated at St Peter's Court, where he became a friend of Adrian Swire and Houston Shaw Stewart, and later at Eton College. He did his national service as a second lieutenant in the 11th Hussars, receiving his commission on 3 November 1951, and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. On 30 September 1952, he was transferred from the national service list to the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons, with seniority from his original date of commission. He was made an acting lieutenant on 12 June 1953. Lumley was commissioned a Territorial Army lieutenant with the Dragoons on 5 December 1955, with seniority from the date of his acting lieutenancy, which he relinquished on 18 July 1956. He received a short service commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Armored Corps on 26 March 1956, which he relinquished on 20 July, when he was promoted to lieutenant in the Regular Army Reserve.

During 1956, Lumley served as aide-de-camp to the Governor of Cyprus, Sir John Harding. Here he befriended Lawrence Durrell. Lumley was well-liked for his honesty and intelligence among the British correspondents with whom he had to deal there. He was later the honorary colonel of the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers from 1 December 1975 to 1 December 1988, and president of the Northern Area of The Royal British Legion.

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