John Savile

Sir John Savile (1546–1607) was an English lawyer and judge.

Life He was the eldest son of Henry Savile of Bradley, near Stainland, Yorkshire, by his wife Elizabeth, only daughter of Robert Ramsden; Sir Henry Savile and Thomas Savile were younger brothers. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1561, but did not graduate. To avoid the plague in 1563, he remained in Bradley, where he studied law books on his own.

Savile entered the Middle Temple, where he was autumn reader in 1586. In 1572 he was elected member of parliament for Newton, Lancashire.

Family Savile was four times married:

to Jane, daughter of Richard Garth of Morden, Surrey, by whom he had issue a son Henry, and two daughters; to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, by whom he had issue John (died 1651), who was heir to his half-brother Henry, and great-grandfather of John Savile, 1st Earl of Mexborough (1719–1778); to Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (died 1551), and widow of Sir W. Widmerpoole and then of Sir Martin Frobisher; and to Margery, daughter of Ambrose Peake, and widow of Sir Jerome Weston.

By his last two wives, Savile had no issue.