[2] In 1938, aged 19, Lord Savile, with promptings by his mother, sold the family seat at Rufford Abbey.

[6] During the Second World War Lord Savile was a captain in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding).

After being demobbed he bought Gryce Hall, Shelley, near Huddersfield, to serve as the principal family seat, Walshaw being reserved as a shooting lodge.

[3]George enjoyed the company of younger people, and the Bloody Marys served by his butler to those fortunate enough to be invited to Sunday lunch at Gryce Hall, a late Elizabethan farm house ... were reckoned to be the best in the region.

His nephew, John Anthony Thornhill Lumley-Savile, inherited the title upon George's death in 2008 and the next year put Gryce Hall and Walshaw Lodge up for sale.