| George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3423 words) |
 | He was the great-grandson of Sir George Savile of Lupset and Thornhill in Yorkshire (created baronet in 1611,) was the eldest son of Sir William Savile, 3rd baronet, who distinguished himself in the civil war in the royalist cause and who died in 1644, and of Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Keeper Coventry. |
| On the death of his son William, 2nd Marquess of Halifax, in August 1700 without male issue, the peerage became extinct, and the baronetcy passed to the Saviles of Lupset, the whole male line of the Savile family ending in the person of Sir George Savile, 8th baronet, in 1784. |
| Henry Savile, British envoy at Versailles, who died unmarried in 1687, was a younger brother of the first marquess. |
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