1430–1, 1447, and 1449 he was a trier of petitions. He now became a regular attendant at the meetings of the privy council, and, as an opponent of Gloucester's supremacy, resisted the attempt made on 6 Nov. 1431 to deprive Beaufort of the see of Winchester, and argued against the proposal made on 28 Nov. to increase Gloucester's salary. On 14 May 1433 Lumley, with the abbot of Glastonbury and others, received permission to attend the council of Basle, but he does not seem to have left England (cf. Rotuli Scotiæ, ii. 282). Having suffered severely from the incursions of the Scots, he was, on 12 July 1434, appointed a commissioner to arrange a treaty. He was assessed at one hundred marcs in 1436 for the loan towards the expedition for France, but was fully occupied in protecting the west marches (ib. ii. 296–7), and in February 1438 he was nominated an English representative at the council of Ferrara. In 1447 Lumley became lord high treasurer of England. In 1448 the king wished the pope to translate Lumley to London, but Thomas Kemp was preferred. The letters which passed on the subject are preserved in the ‘Bekynton Correspondence’ (Rolls. Ser.), i. 156–9. By the agency of the Duke of Suffolk, and in spite of the opposition of the Duke of Gloucester and Lord Scrope, he was translated to the bishopric of Lincoln by papal bull dated 28 Jan. 1449–1450. He died at London intestate on 18 Dec. 1450. He was a benefactor to Cambridge, giving 200l. towards the building of Queens' College, and presenting books to its library.
[Surtees's Durham, i. 162; Jefferson's Hist. of Carlisle, p. 203; Browne Willis's Cathedrals, iii. 56; Hasted's Kent, iii. 219; Nicholas's Proceedings of the Privy Council, iv. 8 and sq., vol. v. passim, vi. 328; Rolls of Parliament, iv. 368, 422, v. 129, 141; Letters of Margaret of Anjou, ed. Monro (Camd. Soc.), pp. 111, 112, 148; Letters and Papers illustrative of the Wars of the Engl. in France … ed. Stephenson (Rolls. Ser.), ii. 766, 769; Le Neve's Fasti (Hardy), ii. 19, 84, iii. 238, 307, 600, 679; Godwin, De Præsulibus, pp. 298, 768; Three Fifteenth Cent. Chron. ed. Gairdner (Camd. Soc.), 151.]
LUMLEY, RICHARD, first Earl of Scarborough (d. 1721), was son of John Lumley (d. 1658), by Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Compton. Henry Lumley [q. v.] was his younger brother. The grandfather, Richard Lumley, first Viscount Lumley of Waterford (d. 1661?), was grandson of Anthony Lumley, who was brother of John, fifth (or sixth) Baron Lumley (1493–1544) [q. v.]; was knighted by James I at Theobalds, 19 July 1616, and on 12 July 1628 was created Viscount Lumley of Waterford in the peerage of Ireland. He took the king's side in the civil war. After garrisoning Lumley Castle, he proceeded to Bristol with Prince Rupert, actively aided in its defence, and was present at its surrender on 10 Sept. 1645. He afterwards compounded for his estate, and seems to have died about 1661. He was buried at Cheam, Surrey. By his wife, Frances, daughter of Henry Shelley of Warminghurst Park, Sussex, he left a son John, who predeceased him in 1658, and a daughter Julia.
Richard Lumley, the grandson, was educated a Roman catholic, went beyond seas in October 1654, and, coming to court at the Restoration, became a favourite of Charles II. He was a volunteer for the abortive Tangier expedition of 1680. From 11 Sept. 1680 to 23 Feb. 1681–2, he was master of the horse to Queen Catherine, in place of the Earl of Feversham, and seems to have held at the time a commission in the 1st troop of horse-guards. On 31 May 1681 he was created Baron Lumley of Lumley Castle in the peerage of
