Sir George Savile, 1st Baronet of Thornhill (1551 – 12 November 1622), was an English politician and the lineal ancestor of the

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. He was born in 1551, the eldest son of

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and Joan Vernon. The Saviles were an old gentry family of Yorkshire, where many of them served as MPs or sheriffs. George Savile himself was elected to serve as Member of Parliament for

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in 1586 and for

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in 1593. He succeeded to the estate of Thornhill after the death of his cousin, Edward Savile, in February 1602/3. He was created a Baronet in 1611 by

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and was

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for 1613–1614. He married twice, with children by both wives. His first wife, Mary Talbot, was the daughter of the

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, and brought the estate of

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into the Savile family. She was the mother of Sir George Savile, who predeceased his father but whose sons George and

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succeeded in turn as the 2nd and 3rd Baronets. His second wife, Elizabeth Ayscough (widow of George Savile of Stanley), was the mother of three more sons (John, Richard, and Henry) and four daughters. Sir William, the 3rd baronet, was the father of

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. He died in 1622 and was buried in Thornhill church in Yorkshire."The English Baronetage"
pp. 159–160.

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1551 births 1622 deaths Members of the Parliament of England for constituencies in Yorkshire Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1586–1587 English MPs 1593 High Sheriffs of Yorkshire {{16thC-England-MP-stub