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See also:SIR See also:GEORGE See also:SAVILE (1726-1784)
, See also:English politician, was the only son of See also:Sir See also:George See also:Savile, See also:Bart
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1743), of Rufford, See also:Nottinghamshire, and was See also:born in See also:London on the 18th of See also:July 1726
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He entered the See also:House of See also:Commons as member for See also:York-See also:shire in 1759
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In See also:general he advocated views of a very liberal See also:character, including See also:measures of See also:relief to See also:Roman Catholics and to See also:Protestant dissenters, and he defended the See also:action of the See also:American colonists
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He refused to take See also:office and in 1783 he resigned his seat in See also:parliament
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He died unmarried in London on the loth of See also:January 1784
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See also:Horace See also:Walpole says Savile had " a large See also:fortune and a larger mind," and See also:Burke had also a very high See also:opinion of him
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He bequeathed Rufford and some of his other estates to his See also:nephew, See also:Richard Lumley (1757–1832), a younger son of Richard Lumley See also:Saunderson, 4th See also:earl of Scar-See also:borough (1725–1782)
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Richard took the additional name of Savile, but when on his See also:brother's See also:death in 1807 he became 6th earl of See also:Scarborough the Savile estates passed to his brother See also: He entered the See also:foreign office in 1841, was See also:British See also:envoy at See also:Dresden and at Berne, and from 1883 to 1888 represented his See also:country in See also:Rome . Although the eldest son, he did not inherit Rufford and his See also:father's other estates until after the deaths of two of his younger See also:brothers . He made a See also:fine collection of pictures and died at Rufford on the 28th of See also:November 1896, when his nephew John Savile Lumley Savile (b . 1854) became the and baron . |
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