Sir George Savile, 7th Baronet

Sir George Savile, 7th Baronet, FRS (10 February 1678 – 16 September 1743), of Thornhill, of Rufford Nottinghamshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1734.

He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1691 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1696.

He succeeded a first cousin of his father, Sir John Savile, 6th Baronet, in 1704, inheriting Rufford Abbey.

He was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire at a by-election in 1728 and sat until the 1734 general election.

[3] Savile married Mary Pratt, the daughter of John Pratt of Dublin (but reputedly the natural daughter of Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne), and had three children; Arabella, George (who became the 8th baronet), and Barbara, who married Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough.