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General Sir William Lumley, GCB (28 August 1769 – 15 December 1850) was a British Army officer and courtier during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The son of the Earl of Scarborough, Lumley enjoyed a rapid rise through the ranks aided by a reputation for bravery and professionalism established on campaign in Ireland, Egypt, South Africa, South America, Italy, Portugal and ...
Aldred Frederick George Beresford Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough (16 November 1857 – 4 March 1945), styled Viscount Lumley from 1868 to 1884, was an Anglo-Irish peer, soldier and landowner. He was noted for his long service in both the Territorial Army and politics, which included 60 years in the House of Lords , and for his contributions to ...
General Lumley may refer to: . Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough (1857–1945), British Army major general; Henry Lumley (c. 1658–1722), British Army general; Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough (1896–1969), British Army major general
Major-General Robert Douglas (1727—1809), commander of 's-Hertogenbosch, a garrison city 1780—1794; Major-General Sir Robert Percy Douglas (1804—1891), 4th baronet of Carr; Major-General Robert Douglas of Garlston, NB', (c. 1744—1798) Major-General Robert Douglas ( —1828, of the 55th Regiment of Foot, formerly Adjutant-General in the ...
Major-General Bernard Montgomery (left), Lieutenant-General Sir Alan Brooke (centre), and Major-General Dudley Johnson (right) in France, c.1939–40. Johnson served with the Wiltshire Regiment in the Second Boer War. [1] He transferred to the South Wales Borderers upon graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1903.
Brian Lumley, writer; Charles Lumley, soldier; Ed Lumley, a corporate executive and former Canadian politician; Edward Lumley, Canadian politician; Harry Lumley (baseball) (1880–1938) Harry Lumley (ice hockey) James Rutherford Lumley (1773–1846), Bengal Army major-general; Jane Lumley, wife of John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley; Joanna Lumley ...
Lumley was the son of Brigadier General Osbert Lumley (1857–1923), youngest child and son of the 9th Earl. His mother was Constance Ellinor Wilson-Patten (1864–1933), granddaughter of John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh. He attended Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford.
During this period general officers were those who held the rank of field marshal, general, lieutenant-general, major-general, or brigadier-general and generally commanded units of brigade size or larger. A popular view arose in post-war years that British general officers were detached from the fighting in châteaux far behind the front line ...