Earl of Mexborough
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The title Earl of Mexborough, of Lifford in the County of Donegal, was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1766 for the 1st Baron Pollington, who in 1753 had been created Baron Pollington, of Longford in the County of Longford. The title Viscount Pollington, of Ferns in the County of Wexford, was created at the same time as the Earldom and is used as a courtesy title by Heirs Apparent.
Despite their territorial designations and the fact that they are in the Peerage of Ireland, all three titles refer to places in England, namely Mexborough and Pollington in Yorkshire.
[edit] Barons Pollington (1753)
[edit] Earls of Mexborough (1766)
- John Savile, 1st Earl of Mexborough (1719-1778)
- John Savile, 2nd Earl of Mexborough (1761-1830)
- John Savile, 3rd Earl of Mexborough (1783-1860)
- John Charles George Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough (1810-1899)
- John Horace Savile, 5th Earl of Mexborough (1843-1916)
- John Henry Savile, 6th Earl of Mexborough (1868-1945)
- John Raphael Wentworth Savile, 7th Earl of Mexborough (1906-1980)
- John Christopher George Savile, 8th Earl of Mexborough (b. 1931)
Heir Apparent: John Andrew Bruce Savile, Viscount Pollington (b. 1959)
Lord Pollington's Heir Presumptive: The Hon. James Hugh Hope John Savile (b. 1976) (his half-brother)
