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Ritratto di Cornelius Johnson (1628) '''From Wikipedia, the free ency clopedia''' Thomas Savile was born on 14 September 1590, the son of J ohn Savile, 1st Baron Savile of Pomfret and Elizabeth Cary. He was bap tised at Doddington-Pigot in the English county of Cheshire. Savile w as elected to the House of Commons as member for Yorkshire in 1624. I n the Parliament of 1624 he became an opponent of Thomas Wentworth, af terwards earl of Strafford—the rivalry between the Saviles and the W entworths having long been a feature of the history of Yorkshire. Savi le attached himself to the Duke of Buckingham and he was created Visco unt Savile of Castlebar in the peerage of Ireland in 1628. On the deat h of his father two years later, he became the 2nd Baron Savile of Pom fret. His growing enmity to Strafford led him into violent oppositio n to the government as the earl's power increased, and in 1640 he ente red into correspondence with the Scots, to whom he sent a promise of s upport to which he forged the signatures of six peers. He was appointe d Lord President of the Council of the North in succession to Straffor d, but after Strafford's fall he went over to the Royalist party, in w hose interest he exerted his influence in Yorkshire in a manner that b rought upon him the displeasure of the parliament in 1642. His effort s to exonerate himself led to his being suspected by the Royalists, an d to his arrest, while his residence, Howley Hall, was sacked by the E arl of Newcastle, the Royalist general. Having been pardoned by Charle s, whom Savile attended at Oxford, he was created earl of Sussex in 16 44; but his efforts to promote peace on terms distasteful to the kin g brought him again into disfavour, and in 1645 he was imprisoned an d accused of high treason. Escaping from this charge on the ground o f his privilege as a peer, he went to London and again ingratiated him self with the popular party. Intriguing simultaneously with both parti es, he continued to play a double game with considerable skill, althou gh he suffered imprisonment in 1645 for accusing Denzil Holles and Bul strode Whitelocke of treachery in negotiations with the king, and wa s heavily fined. After this he retired into private life at Howley Hal l, where he died about 1659. He was succeeded in the earldom of Susse x by his son James. '''References''' 1^ Lundy, Darryl (2009-05-21) . "Person Page - 1741 - Thomas Savile, 1st Earl of Sussex". thepeerage .com. http://thepeerage.com/p1741.htm#i17407. Retrieved 2009-05-23. T his article incorporates text from the article "Earls of Sussex" in th e Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in th e public domain.