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Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough

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770: 29: 153: 765: 124:. He supported the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709. He wished to serve in the army, and though not given a commission, he joined the Duke of Marlborough for the campaign in the spring and summer of 1709. In 1710, he voted for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell. He succeeded his recently deceased, elder brother as MP for 180:
that year. He remained a Whig supporter in the House of Lords, but in 1717 he was forced to sell his regiment for his adherence to the Prince of Wales. On 2 May 1721 he stood as proxy for Ernest, Duke of York at the baptism of William Augustus. After inheriting his father's titles in December 1721,
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on 29 January 1740, aged 53. At the time of his death it was rumoured to have been brought on by a mental disorder he developed from a knock on the head when he had an accident in his carriage a few days before. There was also a rumour that he had killed himself because of a betrayal of trust. The
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he was returned again for Arundel. He was concerned about the movements of the Pretender and campaigned for his removal from Lorraine. He spoke and voted against the expulsion of Richard Steele from the House. In 1714 he was appointed Lord of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales in September 1714
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rumour ran that he had confided a secret of State to the dowager Duchess of Manchester whom he had been about to marry, and that she had then told this secret to others. When word got back to the king of the source of the leak of the secret, Scarborough killed himself.
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on 15 June 1727. He gave up his court post in 1734 and was promoted to major-general in 1735 and lieutenant-general in 1739. In 1739, he was one of the founding governors for the
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in 1713. He told against a Court amendment to the Address on 10 April 1713, and voted on against the French commerce bill on 18 June 1713. At the
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on 9 July 1724. On the accession of King George II in 1727, he became Master of the Horse to the King and was admitted to the
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Lord Scarbrough committed suicide by shooting himself through the
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from 1708 until 1715 when he was raised to the House of Lords as
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Quartered arms of Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough, KG, PC
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Lord Scarborough was buried on 4 February 1740 in the
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Richard Lumley (disambiguation)

Sir Godfrey Kneller
KG
PC
Stansted Park
Lumley Castle
British Army
Whig
House of Commons
Baron Lumley
Earl of Scarborough
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough
Eton College
King's College, Cambridge
1708 British general election
MP
East Grinstead
Arundel
1710 British general election
No Peace Without Spain
1st Dragoon Guards
1713 British general election
Master of the Horse

called to the House of Lords
barony of Lumley
1st Foot Guards
Jacobites
Battle of Preston

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