Lieutenant-General Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough was an English army officer and Whig politician best known for his role in the Glorious Revolution.
Portrait in the style of Jonathan Richardson, 1690–1700
Frances, Countess of Scarborough
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The Glorious Revolution was the deposition of King James II in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, James's nephew William III of Orange. The two ruled as join
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough
…Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough (c. 1650 – 17 December 1721) was an English army officer and Whig politician best known for his role in the Glorious Revolution. Lumley was the son of John Lumley and Mary Compton, and the grandson of Richard Lumley, 1st Viscount Lumley, and Frances Shelley. The Lumleys were an…
The Prince of Orange landing at Torbay as depicted in an illustration by Johan Herman Isings
The sailing order of the Dutch fleet
James II and VII, King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Portrait of James II by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, 1684
James's attempts to allow tolerance for English Catholics coincided with the October 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau revoking it for Huguenots.