🏰Lady Sibell Mary Lumley & Lord Lyulph Richard Granby William Lumley.

I have many beautiful CDVs in my collection and some with names still to be researched, but these two are fairly unique as they are a Lady and a Lord, even though both the subjects are very young.

The other wonderful thing is that they are also siblings. They were a great find at Ford Airfield Car Boot a few years ago.

Lady Sibell and Lord Lyulph were both born at this beautiful Tickhill Castle House in Yorkshire.

Tickhill Castle House, where Lady Sibell & Lord Lyulph Lumley were born.

Family History

They were two of the children of Richard George Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough and Frederica Mary Adeliza Drummond. The couple had seven children.

Lady Sibell Mary Lumley, pictured below, was their fifth child and was born on 25 March 1855 in Tickhill, Yorkshire, England.

She married, firstly, Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, on 3 November 1874. The couple had two daughters, 1. Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor b. 22 Aug 1875, d. 8 Jul 1957 and 2. Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor b. 25 Dec 1876, d. 28 Jul 1936 and one son, 3. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, who became the 2nd Duke of Westminster.

Tragically, her husband Victor died on 22 January 1884, aged just 30 years old. An account of his death, funeral, and burial recorded on Find A Grave was printed on Saturday, January 26, 1884, in The Tablet: A Weekly Newspaper and Review, Volume 63, No. 2284, page 143:

Part here: “We regret to record that EARL GROSVENOR died shortly after midnight on Tuesday morning at Saighton Towers, his residence, near Chester, from an acute attack of congestion of the lungs…… leaves issue an only son, Hugh Richard, Viscount Belgrave, born in March, 1879, and two daughters, Ladies Constance and Lettice Grosvenor, His lordship was formerly a lieutenant in the Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry.”

Lady Constance (22 August 1875-8 July 1957). On 15 July 1899 she married Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury. The couple had five children.

2. Lady Lettice (16 June 1906-18 July 1973). On 16 June 1930, she married Sir Richard Charles Geers Cotterell, 5th Baronet. The couple had four children, and later in 1958, they divorced.

3. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (19 March 1879-19 July 1953). He married four times and divorced three times; his first marriage on 16 February 1901 was to Constance Edwina Cornwallis-West, and the couple had three children. He famously had an affair lasting several years with Coco Chanel. He also had an amazing military career, more about him here: https://military-history.fandom.com

Three years later, on 7 February 1887, Lady Sibell married the Rt. Hon. George Wyndham, on 7 February 1887, son of Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham and Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell. The couple had one son, Percy Lyulph Wyndham (5 December 1887-15 September 1914). This Biography of him from ‘Every One Rememered.org’: “Percy Lyulph (“Perf”)Wyndham was a Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, and died at Soissons, Aisne, France, aged 26 on 14th September 1914. He was shot through the head by a sniper whilst leading his men out of a wood. He went into the regular army after Eton, so he was sent to the front right at the beginning of the war.
He was from an aristocratic family, the only child of George Wyndham, MP for Dover, and Secretary of State for Ireland, who had died in 1913, and his wife, Sibell, Countess Grosvenor. The family estate was Clouds, at East Knoyle in Wiltshire, and Percy had moved there after his marriage to Hon. Diana Lister (daughter of Lord Ribblesdale and sister of Hon. Charles Lister) in 1913“.

My second CDV is of Lord Lyulph Richard Granby William Lumley, (Viscount Lumley) the third born child of of Richard George Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough and Frederica Mary Adeliza Drummond.

Lyulph Richard Granby William Lumley, Viscount Lumley, was born on 7 June 1850. He sadly died on 23 August 1868 at age 18.

Cause of death: Pulmonary Consumption (TB), 6 years.

Reported in the Newcastle Journal, 26 August 1868, “We sincerely regret to make the intimation that Lyulph Richard Granby William, Viscount Lumley, eldest son of the Earl of Scarborough, and heir presumptive to the honours of the family, died on Sunday, at Sandbeck Park. Viscount Lumley was born in 1850 and was consequently only 18 years of age. He was educated at Eton. He was styled as Viscount Lumley“.