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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Major-general]] [[Sir]] &#039;&#039;&#039;James Rutherford Lumley&#039;&#039;&#039; [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] (1773–1846) was an English soldier of the [[Bengal Army]] in [[British India]]. <br /> <br /> A son of the Reverend James Lumley and his wife Alice Rutherford, he was baptised on 22 December 1773 at [[Longford, Market Drayton|Longford]], [[Shropshire]].&lt;ref name=Ancestry&gt; [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/98030446:9841 &quot;James Rutherford Lumley&quot;] in &#039;&#039;England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975&#039;&#039;; [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/513124:9901 &quot;James Rutherford Lumley&quot;] in &#039;&#039;India, Select Marriages, 1792–1948&#039;&#039;, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 25 November 2022 {{subscription}}&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> Lumley was commissioned into the [[East India Company|Honourable East India Company]]’s [[Bengal Native Infantry|Bengal Infantry]]&lt;ref name=DIB/&gt; and by 1824 was a lieutenant-colonel.&lt;ref&gt;James Silk Buckingham, &#039;&#039;Oriental Herald and Colonial Review&#039;&#039;, Vol. 3 (1824), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UtSUFlt-DvwC&amp;pg=PA599 p. 599]&lt;/ref&gt; In January 1837 he was promoted to Major-General.&lt;ref&gt;&#039;&#039;The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register&#039;&#039; (1837), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XNR7mqqNDnUC&amp;pg=RA1-PA139 p. 139]&lt;/ref&gt; He was [[adjutant general]] of the Bengal army which defeated the [[Mahrattas]] in 1844 and soon after that was appointed a [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] for his services.&lt;ref&gt;&quot;LUMLEY K.C.B. Creat. 1844 – Sir James Rutherford Lumley&quot; in Robert Phipps Dod, &#039;&#039;The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland&#039;&#039; (1846), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VdkNAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA253 p. 253]&lt;/ref&gt; He died in 1846.&lt;ref name=DIB&gt;&quot;Sir James R Lumley&quot; in C. E. Buckland, ed., &#039;&#039;Dictionary of Indian Biography&#039;&#039; (London: Swan Sonnenschein &amp; Co., 1906)&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> On 21 November 1809, at [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], Lumley married Caroline Wilkinson.&lt;ref name=Ancestry/&gt; Their children included Anne Lumley (died 1859), James Rutherford Lumley (1810–1885), William Brownrigg Lumley (born 1812), Caroline Lumley (born 1816), Arabella Lumley (born 1817) and Robert Wilkinson Lumley (born 1819). In 1873, William Brownrigg Lumley was a retired Captain of the Indian Army.&lt;ref&gt; &quot;William Brownrigg Lumley, son of James Rutherford Lumley K.B. Major General&quot; in &#039;&#039;Marriages Solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Kentish Town in the County of Middlesex&#039;&#039;, [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/1054060551:1623 No. 178], June 10, 1873, accessed 25 November 2022&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> ==Notes==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Lumley James Rutherford}}<br /> [[Category:1773 births]]<br /> [[Category:1846 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Bengal Native Infantry]]<br /> [[Category:British Indian Army generals]]<br /> [[Category:Military personnel from Shropshire]]</div>

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