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    Earl of Mexborough, of Lifford in the County of Donegal, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 11 February 1766 for John Savile, 1st...
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    Mexborough is a town in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, between Manvers and Denaby Main, on the River Don close to where it joins the River Dearne...
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    1st Earl of Mexborough (December 1719 – 17 February 1778), known as The Lord Pollington between 1753 and 1766, was a British peer and Member of Parliament...
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    Pontefract Castle (category Duchy of Lancaster)
    In 1311 the castle passed by marriage to the estates of the House of Lancaster. Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (circa 1278–1322) was beheaded outside the castle...
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    John Charles George Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough (4 June 1810 – 17 August 1899), styled Viscount Pollington between 1830 and 1860, was a British peer...
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    Earl of Mexborough (8 April 1761 – 3 February 1830), styled Viscount Pollington between 1766 and 1778, was a British peer and politician. Mexborough was...
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  • This is a list of the 189 present earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It does not include extant...
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    Earl of Mexborough (3 July 1783 – 25 December 1860), styled Viscount Pollington until 1830, was a British peer and Tory politician. He was the son of...
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    City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. It lies to the east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the...
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    Castleford. In 1931 the parish had a population of 4607. Methley Hall was the former seat of the Earl of Mexborough. During the fourteenth century the de Waterton...
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    Hardwicks and in 1870 belonged to the Earl of Mexborough. The Earl of Mexborough and Earl Cowper sold parts of their estates in the 1700s and litigated...
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  • names of some Irish peerages refer to places in Great Britain (for example, the Earldom of Mexborough refers to a place in England and the Earldom of Ranfurly...
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    Savile, 3rd Earl of Mexborough, and had issue. Lady Catherine Freeman Yorke (14 April 1786 – 8 July 1863); married Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon,...
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    England, a daughter of John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough, and his second wife Agnes Louisa Elizabeth Raphael. Anne married Prince Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg...
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  • Yorkshire John Savile, 1st Earl of Mexborough (1719–1778), Irish peer and British politician John Savile, 2nd Earl of Mexborough (1761–1830), Irish peer...
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    (b. 1941), eldest son of the late Ralph Henry Scrope by his wife Lady Beatrice Savile, 2nd daughter of the 6th Earl of Mexborough. Other Scropes have also...
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    Joseph Wilton (category Keepers of the Royal Academy)
    Worcester Cathedral (1774) Monument (including a life-size figure) of the Earl of Mexborough at Methley, Yorkshire (1778) Monument to Sir Basil Keith in Jamaica...
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    Lord Warwick married Lady Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of John Savile, 2nd Earl of Mexborough, and widow of John Monson, 3rd Baron Monson, in 1816. She died...
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  • England consisted exclusively of earls and barons. It remains a matter of debate whether early Anglo-Norman counts/earls held their title by tenure (as...
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  • hereditary peers of first creation (Earl of Longford as Lord Pakenham (who was also a former Leader of the House of Lords), Earl of Snowdon, Lord Aldington...
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  • Greville, 3rd Earl of Warwick. Lady Sarah was the daughter of John Savile, 2nd Earl of Mexborough and his wife, the former Elizabeth Stephenson. The family...
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    Horace Savile, 5th Earl of Mexborough. He had spent several years in Asia and had grown closer to Buddhism. For this reason, at the death of his second wife...
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    Francis Blake Delaval (Royal Navy officer) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    Hastings). Through his daughter Sarah, he was a grandfather of John Savile, 2nd Earl of Mexborough. George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage...
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    Benjamin Wilson (painter) (category Recipients of the Copley Medal)
    Duke of York and Albany (1739–67), who favoured him in numerous ways, possibly through one of his sitters, Sir John Savile, later Earl of Mexborough. The...
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  • living heirs. List of dukes in the peerages of Britain and Ireland List of marquesses in the peerages of Britain and Ireland List of earls For example, the...
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  • Charles Henry Allan Bennett (category Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn)
    numeric names: authors list (link) The Teesdal Mercury (1913). "The Earl of Mexborough is a Buddhist by belief. July 2" (PDF). Teesdale Mercury Online Archive...
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    sit in the Commons. The 2nd Viscount Hailsham and the 14th Earl of Home took advantage of the Act to disclaim their peerages, despite having inherited...
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  • (31 August 1939 - 1987), married (divorced 1972) John Savile, 8th Earl of Mexborough, with two children. Lady Hermione Frances Grimston (born 27 September...
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    Mary Savile, the daughter of the 4th Earl of Mexborough from 1898 to 1906, but the marriage was annulled on the grounds of non-consummation. He lived...
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    former Lady Sylvia Savile (third daughter of John Savile, 6th Earl of Mexborough), in 1966. Lord Eldon died on 20 October 1976 and was succeeded in his...
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