Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough

Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough KG PC (30 November 1686 – 29 January 1740) was a British Whig politician, known as Viscount Lumley from 1710 to 1721.

The second son of the 1st Earl of Scarbrough, Lumley was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1708, he entered Parliament as MP for East Grinstead and took over from his recently deceased, elder brother as MP for Arundel in 1710. In 1715, he was called to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Lumley and fought against the Jacobites at Preston, Lancashire that year.

On 2 May 1721 he stood as proxy for Ernest, Duke of York at the baptism of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

After inheriting his father's titles in 1721, Scarbrough became Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and Colonel of the Coldstream Guards in 1722 and Master of the Horse in 1727, having been made a Knight of the Garter and admitted to the Privy Council. In 1739, he was one of the founding governors for the Foundling Hospital in London.

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