Background
Lumley was the son of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough, and was educated at Eton.
Lumley was the son of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough, and was educated at Eton.
Eton College.
His first name is sometimes rendered as Alfred, not Aldred. He was Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1892 to 1904. In early February 1900 he was appointed second in command of a Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry, with the temporary rank of Major in the Army.
His battalion left for South Africa to serve in the Second Boer War, and later the same year he commanded the 7th Hussars, the Yorkshire Dragoons and the Yorkshire Mounted Brigade during the war.
After his return to the United Kingdom, he became an aide-de-camp to King Edward VII in 1902. He was Director-General of the Territorial Force until his retirement in 1921.
On 8 April 1899, Scarbrough married Lucy Cecilia Dunn-Gardner (d 24 November 1931), widow of Colonel Robert Ashton (d 1898), at Christ Church, Mayfair.
Lucy was the daughter of Cecil Dunn-Gardner.
The Countess"s father was probably Cecil Dunn-Gardner (b 1827, possibly d by 1880), formerly of the 13th light Dragoons. The son was the 8th Duke of Wellington (1915–2014). Scarbrough"s own daughter Lady Serena Lumley married 1923 the Honorary
Robert James, and later refused the marriage proposal of her brother-in-law, by then Duke of Wellington.
