George Halifax Lumley-Savile, 3rd Baron Savile (24 January 1919 – 2 June 2008) was an English landowner, member of the

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, and president of the Country Landowners Association. George Halifax Lumley-Savile was the elder son of

John Savile Lumley-Savile, 2nd Baron Savile John Savile Lumley-Savile, 2nd Baron Savile (born John Savile-Lumley; 20 September 1854 – 3 April 1931) was an English landowner, diplomat, and sportsman. John Savile-Lumley was the son of the Rev. Frederick Savile-Lumley, Rector of Bilsthorpe ...

and inherited the title upon the latter's death in 1931. Lumley-Savile was a member of the House of Lords for 60 years and enjoyed attending the meetings of the House until the

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denied hereditary peers their seats in the House. In 1938, aged 19, Lord Savile, with promptings by his mother, sold the family seat at

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. He was sent to

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for prep school and then spent "four happy years" at

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from 1932 to 1936. George and his younger brother Henry both won the Harmsworth Music Prize at Eton. George Savile gave in 1950 large areas of

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to the

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and gave in 1960 Popples Common and adjacent moorland near

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Council. He was a devout Anglican and patron of Emley Parish Church. He never married. His nephew, John Anthony Thornhill Lumley-Savile, inherited the title upon George's death in 2008 and the next year put Gryce Hall and Walshaw Lodge up for sale.

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