John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough

John Charles George Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough (4 June 1810 – 17 August 1899), styled Viscount Pollington between 1830 and 1860, was a British peer and Tory politician.

He impressed his friends enough to be twice fictionalised, and at his death he was the last surviving person to have been elected a Member of the House of Commons before the passing of the Reform Act in 1832.

Gatton was among the boroughs disfranchised by the Reform Act,[4] and Pollington did not attempt to find an alternative constituency at the 1832 general election.

[citation needed] After leaving Parliament, Pollington went on an extensive foreign tour of Russia, Persia and India.

[citation needed] Pollington sat out the Parliament of 1837–1841, and took the opportunity to travel through eastern Anatolia in June 1838.

Arms of Savile: Argent, on a bend sable three owls of the field
Monument in St Raphael's Church, Surbiton , Surrey, to John Savile, 4th Earl Mexborough
John Savile, the future 4th Earl of Mexborough, with his mother Lady Anne Yorke (1783 - 1870), (then Viscountess Pollington, later Countess of Mexborough). Portrait by Thomas Lawrence , Moretti Fine Art collection, London