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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
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
Bilsthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England.OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): According to the 2001 census it had a population of 3,076, increasing to 3,375 at the 2 ...
and nephew of John Savile (1818–1896). The latter was raised to the peerage in 1888 as Baron Savile
Baron Savile, of Rufford in the County of Nottingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1888 for the diplomat Sir John Savile. He was the eldest of the five illegitimate children of John Lumley-Savile, 8th Ear ...
, of Rufford in the County of Nottingham, with remainder to his nephew John Savile-Lumley (later Lumley-Savile). Lord Savile died in November 1896, aged 78 and was succeeded in the Barony, according to the special remainder, by his nephew John Savile Lumley-Savile, 2nd Baron Savile, who in 1898 assumed by royal license the name of Savile after Lumley.
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, John Savile-Lumley joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service
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. He was nominated Attaché at Brussels in 1874, became 2nd Secretary in Athens in 1879, exchanged into the Foreign Office
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in 1881, and retired in 1889. In the early 1900s he owned about 33,900 acres, comprising the family estates in Nottinghamshire
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and the West Riding of Yorkshire
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. He enjoyed shooting, fishing, and golf.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire and in 1904 was made KCVO. He married in 1894 but his first wife died in 1912 without issue. He married for the second time in 1916; the marriage produced George Halifax Lumley-Savile, heir to the title. Henry Lumley-Savile (1923–2001) was the younger son from the marriage.
He died on 3 April 1931 at his Nottinghamshire home, Rufford Abbey
Rufford Abbey is a country estate in Rufford, Nottinghamshire, England, two miles (4 km) south of Ollerton. Originally a Cistercian abbey, it was converted to a country house in the 16th century after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. ...
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