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Family and Education
b. 1612, 2nd s. of Sir George Savile†, 1st bt. (bur. 24 Aug. 1614), of Barrowby, Lincs., and 2nd w. Anne (bur. 31 July 1633), da. of Sir William Wentworth, 1st bt., of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 66-7. educ. Univ. Coll. Oxf. 8 Dec. 1626, ‘aged 14’;Al. Ox. G. Inn 1 Nov. 1628.G. Inn Admiss. 186. m. 29 Dec. 1629, Anne (bur. 31 July 1662), da. of Sir Thomas Coventry†, 1st Baron Coventry of Aylesborough, ld. kpr. 1625-40, 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.).Thornhill Par. Reg. ed. C. Charlesworth (Yorks. Par. Reg. Soc. xxx), 80; Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. i. 66-7; HP Commons 1660-90, ‘Thomas Chicheley’; J.W. Clay, ‘The Savile fam.’ YAJ xxv. 24-6. suc. bro. as 3rd bt. 19 Dec. 1626;CB. d. 24 Jan. 1644.Hunter, Hallamshire, 140.
Offices Held

Local: commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 21 June 1633-aft. June 1641;C181/4, ff. 142v, 197v; C181/5, ff. 7v, 203. Midland circ. 23 Jan. 1635-aft. Jan. 1642;C181/4, f. 195v; C 181/5, ff. 4v, 220. sewers, Hatfield Chase Level 17 May 1634-aft. Dec. 1637.C181/4, f. 174; C 181/5, ff. 16v, 87. Dep. lt. Yorks. (W. Riding) c.Sept. 1633–?d.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P13/52. Col. militia ft. c.Sept. 1633–42.Sheffield City Archives, WWM/Str P13/52; Add. 28082, f. 80. Commr. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral, c.1633.LMA, CLC/313/I/B/004/MS25474/002, p. 70. J.p. Lincs. (Kesteven) July 1634–d.;C193/13/2. W. Riding 1 Aug. 1634–d.;C231/5, p. 145. Derbys. 2 Dec. 1635–d.C231/5, p. 186. Forester, Sherwood Forest 20 July 1635–d.Notts. RO, DD/SR/1/D/9/2. Member, council of the north, July 1636-Aug. 1641.R. Reid, Council in the North, 498. Kpr. Rufford Walk, Sherwood Forest ?by Feb. 1637–d.Notts. RO, DD/SR/1/D/9/2; Coventry Docquets, 286. Commr. charitable uses, W. Riding 20 Feb. 1637-aft. Mar. 1640;C192/1, unfol. further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641;SR perambulation, Sherwood Forest 28 Aug. 1641;C181/5, f. 210. assessment, W. Riding 1642;SR. array (roy.), Notts., Yorks. 18 June 1642; Lincs. 4 July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.

Central: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, by July 1639–?d.SP16/427/38v, f. 74; LC3/1, f. 25v. Master in chancery, extraordinary, Jan. 1644–d.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 120.

Military: col. of ft. (roy.) by 21 July 1642–d.Hunter, S. Yorks. i. 124. Gov. Raby Castle, co. Dur. 1643–?;Newman, Roy. Officers, 332. Sheffield Castle, Yorks. 9 May 1643–d.;Hunter, Hallamshire, 136. York Nov. 1643–d.Newman, Roy. Officers, 332.

Parlimentarian
SAVILE, Sir William (1612-44), of Thornhill, Yorks, and Rufford, Notts.
: of Thornhill, Yorks. and Notts., Rufford.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown.Portraits of Yorks. Worthies ed. E. Hailstone (1869), i. no. lxvi.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SAVILE, Sir William (1612-44), of Thornhill, Yorks, and Rufford, Notts.

Will
18 July 1642, cod. 1 Jan. 1644, pr. 27 Jan. 1644.Borthwick, Wills in York Registry, Prerogative wills, Jan. 1644; Prerogative Act Bk. 1 (entry for 27 Jan. 1644).
Estates
inherited an estate that comprised at least 27 manors in Yorks. as well as property in Derbys., Lincs., Notts., Oxon., Salop, Staffs. and Wilts.C142/774/17; C142/424/190; C142/380/128; Notts. RO, DD/SR/73; Coventry Docquets, 680; Clay, ‘Savile fam.’, 4. Purchased wardship of John Jackson of Wormesley, Yorks. for £1,000 in 1637 with Lady Jackson and Sir William Waller*.WARD9/163, f. 86v. In October 1642, the king granted Savile the manor of Brierley, Yorks.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 340-1. In 1642, estate was worth about £6,300 p.a.;Notts. RO, DD/SR/211/125/1/68. by early 1650s worth at least £6,400 p.a.;Notts. RO, DD/SR/A5/1/1-4. in 1655 valued at £7,354 p.a.;Notts. RO, DD/SR/A5/1/8-9. early 1660s reckoned to be worth more than £8,000 p.a.H.C. Foxcroft, Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, i. 57-8.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
presented Timothy Broadley to vicarage of Penistone, Yorks., 1642.IND1/17000, f. 12v.
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