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William Savile (MP For Lincolnshire)
William Savile may refer to: *Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet (1612–1644), MP for Yorkshire and Old Sarum *William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax (1665–1700), MP for Newark-on-Trent * William Savile (MP for Lincolnshire), see Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency) Lincolnshire was a county constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which returned two Members of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1290 until 1832. History The constituency consisted of the his ... See also * William Saville (other) {{hndis, Savile, William ...
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Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet
Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet of Thornhill (1612 – 24 January 1644) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1642. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War and was killed in action. Savile was born at Thornhill, the son of Sir George Savile and Anne Wentworth, and the grandson of Sir George Savile, 1st Baronet. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his brother George in 1626. Included in the family estates were the residences of Thornhill Hall, Rufford Abbey, and a house in York. He was educated at University College, Oxford and entered Gray's Inn in 1628. Wentworth selected him to be Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding in 1633, and he was appointed to the council in the north in July 1636. In April 1640, Savile was elected Member of Parliament for Yorkshire in the Short Parliament. In parliament, he spoke against ship money and signed the petition against forced billeting, but he remained loyal to the king. He was ...
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William Savile, 2nd Marquess Of Halifax
William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax (1665 – 31 August 1700) was the son of George Savile, 1st Viscount Halifax and Dorothy Savile, Viscountess Halifax (née Spencer). He was educated in Geneva in 1677 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1681, but did not take a degree. He travelled on the continent in 1684–1687, returning on his brother's death. From that time, he was known as Lord Elland, from his father's subsidiary title of Baron Savile of Elland. He was elected Member of Parliament for Newark-on-Trent from 1689 to 1695. He was a Tory and voted in 1689 that the throne was not vacant. He had four daughters including: *By his first wife, Elizabeth Grimston, the daughter of Sir Samuel Grimston, whom he married on 24 November 1687: **Lady Anne Savile (1691 – 18 July 1717) who married Charles Bruce, 4th Earl of Elgin (1682–1747) *By his second wife, Lady Mary Finch, who was the first cousin of his first wife, daughter of Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchil ...
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William Savile (MP For Lincolnshire)
William Savile may refer to: *Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet (1612–1644), MP for Yorkshire and Old Sarum *William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax (1665–1700), MP for Newark-on-Trent * William Savile (MP for Lincolnshire), see Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency) Lincolnshire was a county constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which returned two Members of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1290 until 1832. History The constituency consisted of the his ... See also * William Saville (other) {{hndis, Savile, William ...
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Lincolnshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Lincolnshire was a county constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which returned two Members of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1290 until 1832. History The constituency consisted of the historic counties of England, historic county of Lincolnshire, excluding the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln which had the status of a County corporate, county in itself after 1409. (Although Lincolnshire contained four other boroughs, Boston (UK Parliament constituency), Boston, Grantham (UK Parliament constituency), Grantham, Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency), Great Grimsby and Stamford (UK Parliament constituency), Stamford, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Lincolnshire was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Lincoln.) As in other co ...
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