ABSTRACT
Sir lohn Savile Lumley (1818-96) was the eldest son of Sir lohn Lumley Savile, eighth Earl ofScarborough, and his wife ofFrench origin. His first role of interest came in August 1841, and was that of a supernumerary clerk in the librarian's department of the Foreign Office. This gave hirn the opportunity to take a position as private secretary and attache to lohn Fane, the eleventh Earl of Westmoreland, who had been posted to Berlin. On 5 luly of the following year he was appointed as attache at Berlin. He remained in this job for the next seven years, gaining diplomatie experience whilst he and his superior were involved in negotiations between Prussia and Denmark over Schleswig-Holstein. His next transfer came in 1849, to St Petersburg. His career continued to develop, taking hirn to Washington, Madrid and Constantinople, before he returned to Russia for nearly six years (1861-66). Whilst working in Russia, he was elected a member ofthe Russian Imperial Academy. The rest of his career, which spanned forty-two years, was spent in various places in Europe. In 1873 he was decorated, and in 1878 he was knighted. In 1885, the year of his excavations at Nemi, he was decorated again.
