John Charles George Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough, styled Viscount Pollington between 1830 and 1860, was a British peer and Tory politician. He impressed his friends enough to be twice fictionalised,
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
Gatton (constituency)
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Gatton was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1450 until 1832, when the constitu
John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough
…Homer" between rounds. From there he went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1827–8. Pollington was returned to Parliament for the rotten borough of Gatton in 1831, a borough under the control of his cousin, Frederick Monson, 5th Baron Monson. At the time of his election he was under-age but Parliament did…
Robert Mayne (1724–1782), MP for Upper Gatton, by Joshua Reynolds.