Savile
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Savile is a surname, and may refer to:
  • Dorothy Savile, Viscountess Halifax
    Dorothy Savile, Viscountess Halifax
    Dorothy Savile, Viscountess Halifax was the first wife of George Savile, 1st Viscount Halifax and the daughter of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland...

  • George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
    George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
    George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax PC was an English statesman, writer, and politician.-Family and early life, 1633–1667:...

  • George Savile (disambiguation), for others of that name
  • Henry Savile (disambiguation)
  • Sir Henry Savile
    Sir Henry Savile
    Sir Henry Savile was an English scholar, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton.-Life:He was the son of Henry Savile of Bradley, near Halifax in Yorkshire, England, a member of an old county family, the Saviles of Methley, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ramsden.He was...

  • Jimmy Savile
    Jimmy Savile
    Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG was an English disc jockey, television presenter and media personality, best known for his BBC television show Jim'll Fix It, and for being the first and last presenter of the long-running BBC music chart show Top of the Pops...

  • John Savile, 1st Baron Savile (disambiguation), a title granted on two separate occasions
  • Leopold Halliday Savile
    Leopold Halliday Savile
    Sir Leopold Halliday Savile, KCB, MICE was a British civil engineer.Savile was born at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland on 31 August 1870. Savile was a distant descendent of Anne Plantagenet, the sister of Richard III and Edward IV. In 1904 Savile married Evelyn Styleman. He was appointed a...

    , British civil engineer
  • Steven Savile
    Steven Savile
    Steven Savile is a British fantasy, horror and thriller writer, and editor living in Stockholm, Sweden...

  • William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax
    William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax
    William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax was the son of George Savile, 1st Viscount Halifax and Dorothy Savile, Viscountess Halifax . He was educated in Geneva in 1677 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1681, but did not take a degree. He travelled on the continent in 1684–1687,...

  • D.B.O. Savile, mycologist

See also

  • Baron Savile
    Baron Savile
    Baron Savile, of Rufford in the County of Nottingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.It was created in 1888 for the diplomat Sir John Savile. He was the eldest of the five illegitimate children of John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough, and the grandson of John Lumley-Savile,...

  • Savile Club
    Savile Club
    The Savile Club was founded in 1868 for the purpose of conversation and good company. Though located somewhat out of the way from the main centre of London's gentlemen's clubs, closer to the residences of Mayfair than the clubs of Pall Mall and St James's Street, it still contained some prominent...

  • Savile Row
    Savile Row
    Savile Row is a shopping street in Mayfair, central London, famous for its traditional men's bespoke tailoring. The term "bespoke" is understood to have originated in Savile Row when cloth for a suit was said to "be spoken for" by individual customers...

  • Saville (disambiguation)
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