The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
George Lumley ( - fl. 1719)
Educator and amateur artist. Son of George Lumley "the Aristocrat" and brother of Mary, who married Joshua Thoresby, whom Lumley refers to as "Brother Thoresby" in a letter to Ralph Thoresby, 6 June 1710 (Lancaster, 214-15).Lumley and his wife ran the Manor-house School at York, where Ralph Thoresby enrolled his daughter in July 1710 (Diary, 2: 61; Lancaster, 214, n. 3). Long before that, Thoresby appreciated George's talents, describing one of his visits to "the ingenious Mr. Lumley, ... an excellent artist in many respects, [who] paints excellently, japans incomparably," adding that he "works mezzotinto plates very fine." Thoresby came away from the visit with additions to his collection: "he made me a kind present of the lady Fenwick's, Dean Comber's, and Czar of Muscovy's, pictures of his own doing" (23 June 1703, Diary, 1: 440). In January 1710/11, Thoresby again visited his daughter and boarding school and took opportunity to "discourse [with] Mr. Lumley; looked at a variety of ingenious books; pitched upon some needlework embroidery, and some cross-stitch worsted for chairs" (Diary, 2: 61-2). A couple weeks later, he visits again, this time referring to his "cousin Lumley," going together to Henry Gyles's home "to inquire for Roman antiquities, found as digging for clay; [and] procured two of the pots" (21 January 1710/11, 2: 63). On 10 July 1711, Thoresby showed his collection to "Cousin Lumley" (2: 80), and on 20 October 1719, after morning prayer and a visit to the coffee-house, Thoresby records that he went to the Manor-school "to visit two ingenious artists, Mr. Place and cousin Lumley, who presented me with some curiosities" (2: 266)
Correspondent
Relevant locations: Residence at York, Yorkshire
Relationships: George Lumley was a friend of Henry Gyles (1646 (bap)-1709)
George Lumley was a friend of Francis Place (1647-1728)
George Lumley was a brother-in-law of Joshua Thoresby (-fl. 1703)
George Lumley was a correspondent of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
Henry Lumley (-1720) was a brother of George Lumley
Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Mentions or references - Letters Addressed to Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S.: Printed from the Originals in the Possession of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society .
as Mentions or references - The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. author of the topography of Leeds. (1677-1724).
References in Documents:
Scapula, or Fin of a Whale 3
½ Foot long, and about four broad
at the Skirt. Rib of
a Whale. Don.Gul. CooksonLeod.
at the Glans above a Foot round, though
now shrunk up and hard as
Horn.round Bone of a Whale seven
Inches Diameter, but little
more than one thick. Don. D.
Fran. Place. Whale-Bone as it grows
under
the Tongue of the Whale. Don.Geo.
Lumley.
a Grampus (Grand-poise, Magnus piscis) taken about the
a Foot long; the Fish it self was 19
Yards in Length. Fin of another great Fish,
vulgarly called a Bottle-Nose, 25 of which
were at once cast
upon the said Shore. Tooth of a large Fish cast
up near
of white and of the black
, the Blade near two Foot long, an Inch broadTurkish Scimiter
'till towards the End, where it is 1 ½; the black Hilt, adorned with
blanch'd Metal engraved, is formed into a kind of antique Head:
fenced with red Leather, which on the Fore-side is cut into Branches,
and laid upon various Colours. This was presented by the
toDey of
Algiers
Hen. Lumley
Russel,
Fleet, lay before that Place, and was given me by his Brother
Geo. Lumley