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The abbey itself was founded by Gilbert de Gant, on 12 July 1147, [4] and populated with Cistercian monks from Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire.. The English Pope, Adrian IV gave the blessing for the abbey in 1156, following which the abbey's lands expanded and the villagers of Cratley, Grimston, Rufford, and Inkersall were evicted.
John Lumley-Savile (2nd Baron Savile) caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1908. The image is captioned "Rufford Abbey". Baron Savile, of Rufford in the County of Nottingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1888 for the diplomat Sir John Savile.
Rufford Abbey. Savile was the son of Rev. John Savile, rector of Thornhill, Yorkshire, and his second wife Barbara Jenison, daughter of Thomas Jenison of Newcastle. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1691 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1696.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, PC, DL, FRS (11 November 1633 – 5 April 1695), was an English statesman, ... retired to his family home at Rufford Abbey.
Sir George Savile, 1st Baronet of Thornhill (1551 – 12 November 1622), [1] was an English politician and the lineal ancestor of the Marquesses of Halifax. He was born in 1551, the eldest son of Henry Savile and Joan Vernon. [2] The Saviles were an old gentry family of Yorkshire, where many of them served as MPs or sheriffs.
Lord Savile was a member of the House of Lords for 60 years and enjoyed attending the meetings of the House until the House of Lords Act 1999 denied hereditary peers their seats in the House. [2] In 1938, aged 19, Lord Savile, with promptings by his mother, sold the family seat at Rufford Abbey. [4]
Savile was born in Savile House, London, the only son of Sir George Savile, 7th Baronet, and Lady Savile (born Mary Pratt, later married to Charles Morton), of Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, and inherited his baronetcy on the death of his father in 1743. Savile was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. [1]
The landowners auctioned or leased their mineral rights: Earl Manvers' Thoresby estate in May 1919 and Lord Savile of Rufford Abbey's lease for Ollerton in 1921. [6] Colliery companies such as the Butterley Company at Ollerton and the Stanton Company at Thoresby bought the rights. [7]