Sir George Savile, 1st Baronet

Sir George Savile, 1st Baronet was an English politician and the lineal ancestor of the Marquesses of Halifax. He was the eldest son, born in 1550, of Henry Savile and Joan Vernon. The Saviles were an old gentry family of Yorkshire, where many of them served as MPs or sheriffs. He was created a Baronet by James I of England. He died in 1622 and was buried in Thornhill Church in the county of York.^[1]

He married twice, with children by both wives. His first wife, Mary Talbot, was the daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury. She was the mother of Sir George Savile, who predeceased his father but whose sons George and William would succeed as the 2nd and 3rd Baronets. His second wife, Elizabeth Ayscough, was the mother of three more sons (John, Richard, and Henry) and four daughters. Sir William, the 3rd baronet, was the father of George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax.

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