George Savile
1726 – 1784
A Whig MP from 1759 until his death in 1784.
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Sir George Savill was the only son of a distinguished London family. Educated at Cambridge and adhering to Old Whig principles, he worked with Edmund Burke to support colonial claims against Parliament. He opposed the Quebec Act of 1774 as an imposition on American rights, but, somewhat ironically, would later introduce the Catholic Relief Act of 1778, setting off the Gordon riots in 1780. The riots severely strained the government’s resources and hastened the end of the American War.
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