Marquess of Halifax - The Savile Estates

The Savile Estates

The 8th and last Savile Baronet bequeathed the Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire estates (including Ruffield and Thornhill) of the family on his nephew, The Hon. Richard Lumley-Saunderson, later 6th Earl of Scarbrough, younger son of the 4th Earl of Scarbrough and Barbara Savile, sister and heiress of Sir George Savile. Eventually, in 1887, the Savile estates passed to his great-nephew, the diplomat John Lumley-Savile, who assumed the surname of Savile only and was created Baron Savile the following year.

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