1-page handwritten letter. Sent from Sandbeck Park, Rotherham. 

Dated 1901.

Written to "Dear General" (General Sir Alfred Edward Turner).

"Just got your kind invitation to dine which I shall be very pleased to accept. I am coming up tomorrow for a night on business, so it will fit in very conveniently. Many Thanks, Yrs truly Scarbrough"

Major General Aldred Frederick George Beresford Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough (1857 – 1945) Anglo-Irish peer, soldier and landowner. He served for six years with the 7th Hussars and saw service in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. He was in Natal at the outbreak of the First Boer War in 1881. 

Member of the Royal Yacht Club. Member of the council of the Royal Niger Company. Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the Yorkshire Dragoons. In 1900 he was appointed second in command of a Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry and served with it in the Second Boer War. Aide-de-camp to King Edward VII. Commander of the Yorkshire Mounted Brigade. Director-General of the Territorial Force. Honorary Colonel of the 54th (West Riding & Staffordshire) Medium Brigade, Royal Artillery.


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