John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley
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Born | c. 1533 |
Died | 11 April 1609 (aged c. 76) |
John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, KB (c. 1533 – 1609) was an English aristocrat, who is remembered as one of the greatest collectors of art and books of his age.
Early life
John Lumley, born about 1533, was the grandson and heir of John, Lord Lumley. He was the only son of George Lumley (who had been executed in the lifetime of his father for his role in the Pilgrimage of Grace), by Jane, second daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Knightley of Upton, Northamptonshire.
In a petition to
He was made
He was suspected of treasonable dealings with Mary, Queen of Scots, and was imprisoned in 1570 along with the Earl of Arundel, his father-in-law. In October 1586 he was one of the judges at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, and also in 1602 of the trial of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
Marriages
Lumley married firstly, before the end of 1550,
Lumley married secondly, Elizabeth Darcy, daughter of Thomas Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy of Chiche, by Frances, daughter of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich. Elizabeth survived her husband by 10 years and was buried 4 February 1616/7 at Cheam.
Custodian of Nonsuch Palace
Lumley's seat was
In 1592 Lumley remitted to
Lumleian Lectures
With Richard Caldwell, Lord Lumley endowed a series of lectures, known as the Lumleian Lectures, starting in 1582 and still being given today. Initially they were about anatomy and surgery, with the purpose of "spreading light" and increasing the general knowledge of anatomy throughout England, but today they are on general medicine.
Initially plans were for a full anatomy course based on weekly lectures, but by 1616 there were three lectures per year. The work of William Harvey on the circulation of the blood was first announced by Harvey in the Lumleian Lecture for 1616.
Today the lecture is given once a year, organised by the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Death
John Lumley died 11 April 1609, aged 76, without any surviving children. At his death the Barony of Lumley (created 1547) became extinct. He was buried at Cheam with his first wife; a tomb and monument there at St. Dunstan's Church memorialize Lumley and his two wives. The composer
See also
- Lumley inventories — of John Lumley's collections.
External links
References
- Barron, Kathryn (2003). "The Collecting and Patronage of John, Lord Lumley (c.1535-1609)". In Chaney, Edward (ed.). The Evolution of English Collecting: Receptions of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 125–58. ISBN 0300102240.
- Barron, Kathryn (2007) [2004]. "Lumley, John, first Baron Lumley (c. 1533–1609)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17179. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Cokayne, George E. (2000). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct and Dormant. Stroud: Sutton.
- Collins, Arthur; Egerton, Brydges (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. London: F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son [etc.] pp. 708–09.
- Cust, Lionel (1918). "The Lumley Inventories". Walpole Society. 6: 15–35.
- Dunk, Herbert (1954). "The Lumley monuments in the ancient church of St Dunstan, Cheam, Surrey". Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society. new ser. 2: 93–107.
- Evans, Mark, ed. (2010). The Lumley Inventory and Pedigree: art collecting and lineage in the Elizabethan Age: facsimile and commentary on the manuscript in the possession of the Earls of Scarbrough. ISBN 978-0-903912-11-2.
- Gooch, Leo (2009). A Complete Pattern of Nobility: John Lord Lumley (c.1534-1609). Rainton Bridge: University of Sunderland Press.
- Hervey, Mary F.S. (1918). "A Lumley Inventory of 1609". Walpole Society. 6: 37–46.
- Liddy, Christian D. (2010). "John Lord Lumley and the creation and commemoration of Lineage in Early Modern England". Archaeological Journal. 167: 197–227. S2CID 163334542.
- Milner, Edith (1904). Benham, Edith (ed.). Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle. London: George Bell.
- Jayne, Sears; Johnson, Francis R., eds. (1956). The Lumley Library: the catalogue of 1609. London: British Museum.
- Piper, David(1957). "The 1590 Lumley Inventory: Hilliard, Segar and the Earl of Essex". Burlington Magazine. 99: 224–31, 299–303.
- Simon, Robin (2010). "The Lumley Inventory and the Lumley Chapel". British Art Journal. 11 (1): 4–5.