John Savile, 1st Baron Savile

Lumley-Savile served as Attaché at the British embassies in Berlin from 1842 to 1849, in St Petersburg from 1849 to 1854 and as Secretary of Legation in Washington from 1854 to 1858, in Madrid from 1858 to 1860 and in Constantinople in 1860.

He was then Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation until 1868,[2] when he was transferred to Belgium until 1883.

The latter year he was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed Ambassador to Italy, a post he held until 1888.

He was succeeded in the Barony according to the special remainder by his nephew John Lumley-Savile, 2nd Baron Savile.

Savile was laid to rest at St Margaret's Church, Bilsthorpe in Nottinghamshire.