Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet

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Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet (1612 – 24 January 1644) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1642. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War and was killed in action.

Savile was born at Thornhill, the son of Sir George Savile and Anne Wentworth, and the grandson of Sir George Savile, 1st Baronet.[1] He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his brother George in 1626. Includ

 in the family estates were the residences of Thornhill Hall, Rufford Abbey, and a house in York. He was educated at University College, Oxford and entered Gray's Inn in 1628. Wentworth selected him to be Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding in 1633, and he was appointed to the council in the north in July 1636.

In April 1640, Savile was elected Member of Parliament for Yorkshire in the Short Parliament. In parliament, he spoke against ship money and signed the petition against forced billeting, but he remained loyal to the king. He was defeated in the election of November 1640 and was returned as MP for Old Sarum in a by-election early in 1641. He gave evidence in favour of Strafford and supported him throughout the trial. He was himself committed to the Tower on 12 June for an unidentified offence and let out on 29 June after a reprimand from the Speaker. Savile was with the king at Nottingham when the royal standard was raised on 22 August 1642. He was marked as a "suspicious man" and was disabled from sitting in the Commons by parliament.

Towards the end of 1642 Savile was placed in command at Leeds when Newcastle marched into the West Riding but on 23 January 1643 Fairfax captured the town after a fierce attack and Savile swam across the River Aire to escape. In May 1643 he was appointed governor of the town of Sheffield and of Sheffield Castle and then transferred to York. In October 1643 he was in command of the Royalist cavalry at the Battle of Winceby. He died at or near York fighting for the king in January 1644. He had converted Thornhill Hall into a garrison for the King's forces, and it was demolished by parliamentary forces after its capture by Cromwell.

Family

Savile married Anne, daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, on 29 December 1629. She became celebrated as a heroine of the civil war when she was besieged by the Parliamentarians in Sheffield Castle. She gave a gallant and warlike defence to the battering from guns on all sides, in spite of her advanced pregnancy. Against her orders, the garrison eventually surrendered the crumbling castle and she gave birth the same night on 11 August 1644.

Sir William & Lady Anne had seven children :

Mary (b.1632)

George (b.1633) who succeeded William as the 4th Baronet and then later created Marquess of Halifax.

Anne (b.1634) married Thomas Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth

William (b.1635)

Margaret (b.1640)

Henry (b.1642)

Talbot (b.1644) born during the siege of Sheffield Castle

Sir William Savile, 3rd Bt.1

M, #35256, b. 1612, d. 24 January 1643/44

Last Edited=13 Apr 2012

    Sir William Savile, 3rd Bt. was born in 1612.1 He was the son of Sir George Savile and Sarah Rede. He married Hon. Anne Coventry, daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry of Aylesborough and Elizabeth Aldersey, on 29 December 1629.1 He died on 24 January 1643/44.1

    He was Member of Parliament (M.P.) York 1640.1 Henry, of Barroughby, born , Envoy France 1679–82, died Paris 6 Oct 1687.1 Margaret, born , perhaps married John Pratt issue (including allegedly the wife of the 7th Bt, see below), died by 1660).1 Anne, born /5, married 12 May 1656 1st Earl of Plymouth (see BP&B 2003), and died 1667.1 He was educated Oxford and Gray's Inn.1 He gained the title of 3rd Baronet Savile.1 Talbot, perhaps born (posthumously) , died by 1660) and three daughters (Mary, baptised 29 Aug 1632, died 1636.1 He lived Thornhill.1 He lived at Thornhill, Yorkshire, England.2

Children of Sir William Savile, 3rd Bt. and Hon. Anne Coventry

1.Anne Savile+2 d. 22 Mar 1666

2.George Saville, 1st Marquess of Halifax+3 b. 11 Nov 1633, d. 5 Apr 1695

Citations

1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2673. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

2.[S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 591. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.

3.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 929.