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unusual facts about John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough


Prince Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg

Ludwig married Lady Anne Savile, daughter of John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough and his second wife Agnes Louisa Elizabeth Raphael, on 15 May 1897 in London.


Alexander William Kinglake

His first literary venture had been Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East, (London: J. Ollivier, 1844), a very popular work of Eastern travel, apparently first published anonymously, in which he described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington.

Earl of Mexborough

It was created in 1766 for John Savile, 1st Baron Pollington, Member of Parliament for Hedon and New Shoreham.

John Savile, 1st Baron Savile of Pontefract

He was buried in Batley church, Yorkshire, where a monument, with an inflated inscription (printed by Whitaker), was raised to his memory by his daughter, Anne Leigh.

John Savile, 1st Earl of Mexborough

Mexborough was a friend and patron of the playwright and actor-manager Samuel Foote; it was while on a visit to Mexborough in 1766 that Foote lost a leg in a riding accident.

Lord Mayor of Leeds

By charter from King Charles I in 1626, the leader of the governing body of the borough of Leeds was an alderman, the first holder being Sir John Savile.


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