Marmaduke Lumley (died 1450) was an English

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, Bishop of Carlisle from 1429 to 1450, and Knight Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. He was a son of

Ralph de Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley Ralph Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley (died January 1400) was an English nobleman, soldier and administrator under King Richard II of England, Richard II, who was stripped of his lands, goods and title and executed for rebelling against King Henry ...

and Eleanor de Neville. He was elected about 5 December 1429, and consecrated on 16 April 1430.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 236 He was

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for a short time before his death in December 1450.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 256 He was educated at

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and was appointed

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of Lincoln Cathedral in 1425. He also became Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1427 and was Master of

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from 1429 to 1443. From 1446 to 1449 he served as

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of England.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 106 Lumley's tenure as Lord High Treasurer occurred during the

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and the Great Slump in England. His administrator was a clerk of Lichfield, John Whelpdale. Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; Year: 1460; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no797/bCP40no797dorses/IMG_1331.htm third entry from bottom of image

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* * Milner, E. (1904). ''Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle''. Edith Benham, ed. London: George Bell & Sons
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