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Sir Francis Lumm, 1st Baronet (1733 − 1796 or 1797) was an Anglo-Irish baronet.[1]
Lumm was the son of Francis Lumm and Sarah Heaton. In 1755 he served as High Sheriff of King's County.[2] In 1762 he was appointed Governor of Ross Castle in County Kerry. On 24 February 1775 he was made a baronet, of Lumville in the Baronetage of Ireland.[3]
He married an heiress, Miss Foster, but died without a male heir, at which point his title became extinct.[1] He was buried at St James's Church, Piccadilly.[citation needed]
References edit
- ^ a b Tenison, C. M. (1894). "The Old Dublin Bankers" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 3: 121.
Sir Francis Lumm, baronet; so created 24th Feb, 1775. He was born October 1733, and married, 1756, Rebecca Amelia, daughter and co-heir of Richard Foster [..] died s.p. in 1796, when the title expired
- ^ G. E. Cokayne, Complete Baronetage (London, 1909), p.384.
- ^ Edmund Burke, Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (London, 1841), p.610.