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SALUSBURY-TRELAWNY, SIR WILLIAM LEWIS, BART., second son of Sir Harry Trelawny, Bart. (qv); b. 4 Jul 1781; adm.; at school 1791; KS 1795; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Feb 1799; assumed surname of Salusbury only 30 Oct 1802, and surname of Trelawny in addition to and after Salusbury 19 Dec 1807; High Sheriff, Cornwall 1811; MP (Whig) East Cornwall 1832-7; succ. father as 8th baronet 25 Feb 1834; Lord Lieut., Cornwall, from 30 Dec 1839; m. 24 Aug 1807 Patience Christian, dau. of John Phillipps Carpenter, Mount Tavy, Devon; d. 15 Nov 1856.

SAVAGE, RICHARD, 4TH EARL RIVERS, brother of Thomas Savage, Viscount Colchester (qv); b.; at school in 1660 (Busby’s Account Book); Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 4th Troop, Horse Guards 23 May 1686; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3rd Horse 31 Dec 1688; 3rd Troop, Horse Guards 23 Jan 1692; Major-Gen., 1 Apr 1693; Lieut. -Gen., 27 Apr 1697; General of the Horse 10 Sep 1703; Col., Royal Horse Guards, from 4 Jan 1711/2; the first nobleman to give his allegiance to William III on his landing in this country; served in Ireland and in Flanders; in command of unsuccessful expedition intended to proceed to France summer 1706, to effect a junction with the Camisards; declined to serve in Spain 1707 as second in command to Lord Galway, and returned home; MP Wigan Feb 1680/1 – Mar 1681, Liverpool Jan 1688/9 – 14 Sep 1694; succ. father as 4th Earl Rivers 14 Sep 1694; Lord Lieut., Cheshire 11 May 1695 – 16 Jan 1703, Lancashire 15 Jan – 18 Jun 1703, Essex from 16 Apr 1705; Privy Councillor 25 Nov 1708; Constable of the Tower 1709, also Lord Lieut. Tower Hamlets 5 Feb 1710 – 10 May 1712; Envoy Extraordinart to Elector of Hanover 1710; Master-Gen. of the Ordnance from 10 Jan 1711/2; a handsome, unscrupulous rake, known in his younger days as “Tyburn Dick”; m. 21 Aug 1679 Penelope, dau. of John Downes, Wardley, Lancs.; d. 18 Aug 1712. DNB.

SAVILE, JOHN, 2ND EARL OF MEXBOROUGH (I), eldest son of John Savile, 1st Earl of Mexborough (I) KB MP, and Sarah Blake, sister of Sir Francis Blake Delaval, Bart. (qv); b. 8 Apr 1761; adm. 27 Apr 1772; in school lists 1775; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Mexborough (I) 27 Feb 1778; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. nob. 26 Feb 1779; MA 1781; MP Lincoln 13 Jan 1808-12; m. 30 Sep 1782 Elizabeth, only dau. of Henry Stephenson, East Burnham, Bucks.; d. 3 Feb 1830.

SAWYER, SIR ROBERT, sixth son of Sir Edmund Sawyer, Kt, Heywood, Maidenhead, Berks., Auditor of the Exchequer, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Sir William Whitmore, Kt, Apley, Shropshire; bapt. 20 Sep 1633; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1648 (Chapter Muniments 43054); Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1648, matr. Mich. 1648; “chamber fellow” of Samuel Pepys (Pepys, Diary, ed. Wheatley, vi, 81, vii, 229, viii, 30); Craven Scholar 16 May 1649; BA 1651/2; MA 1655 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1655); Goche Fellow, Magdalene Coll. 1652, Dennis Fellow 1654; adm. Inner Temple Nov 1653, called to bar 26 May 1661, Bencher 28 Oct 1677, Treasurer Oct 1683 – Oct 1688; practised in Court of Exchequer and on Oxford Circuit; KC (query date); MP Chipping Wycombe Nov 1673 – Jan 1678/9, Cambridge Univ. Jan 1688/9 – 20 Jan 1689/90 (when expelled for his conduct in the case of Sir Thomas Armstrong in 1684) and from Feb 1689/90; knighted 17 Oct 1677; Speaker, House of Commons 11 Apr – 6 May 1678, resigning on grounds of health; assisted in drafting the Exclusion Bill of 1678; Attorney-Gen., 14 Feb 1681 – Dec 1687; represented the Crown when the case against the Charter of the City of London was argued Apr 1682; conducted Rye House Plot prosecutions 1683-4; appeared against Algernon Sidney Nov 1683 and against Titus Oates May 1685; senior counsel for the Seven Bishops Jun 1688; for a summary of his character and career see Macaulay, History of England, 1855, iii, 524-8; lic. to m. 1 Jul 1665 Margaret, dau. of Ralph Suckling, Canonbury House, Islington, Middlesex; d. 28 Jul 1692. DNB.

SCOT, THOMAS, son of Thomas Scot, Watton, Norfolk; b.; adm.; fact of education at the School stated by Wood, Athenae Oxon., iii, 578; MP Aylesbury Sep 1645-53, Wycombe 1654 – Sep 1654, Aylesbury 1656, Wycombe 1659-60; signed Engagement of 4 Aug 1647; one of the Commissioners for the trial of Charles I Jan 1649; signed the King’s death warrant; a member of each of the Five Councils of State during the Commonwealth; manager of home and foreign intelligence 1 Jul 1649; opposed the dissolution of the Long Parliament by Cromwell 1653; excluded from the House of Commons for refusing to sign the Engagement of 12 Sep 1654; again excluded during first session of Parliament of 1656; attacked the revival of the House of Lords, and justified the execution of the King and the abolition of the House of Lords 29 Jan 1658; protested against the recognition of Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector; an active opponent of the Army in 1659-60; appointed to sole charge of the intelligence department 10 Jan 1660; Secretary of State 17 Jan 1660; fled to Flanders Apr 1660, and ultimately surrendered himself to King’s Resident at Brussels; committed to Tower of London 12 Jul 1660; tried with the other regicides at the Old Bailey Oct 1660 and condemned to death; lic. to m. 1st, 27 Jun 1626 Alice, dau. of William Allanson; m. 2nd, 1644 Grace, dau. of Sir Thomas Mauleverer, Bart.; hanged at Charing Cross 17 Oct 1660. DNB.

SCOTT, DAVID; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1733; left 1737 [Perhaps David Scott, son of David Scott MP, Scotstarvit, Fifeshire, and Lucy, dau. of Sir Robert Gordon, Bart., MP (S), bapt. Crail, Fifeshire 12 Oct 1720 (IGI); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1737; the identification is plausible, for this David Scott was a cousin of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (qv), and a Westminster and Christ Church education for him would have been appropriate]. [living 1775]

SCOTT, SIR EDWARD DOLMAN, BART., elder son of Sir Joseph Scott, Bart., MP, and Margaret, dau. of Edward Whitby, Shut End, Staffs.; b. 22 Oct 1793; adm. 29 Feb 1808; left 1810; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Feb 1812; succ. as 2nd baronet 17 Jun 1828; MP (Whig) Lichfield 1831-7; High Sheriff, Staffordshire 1847; m. 1st, 14 Feb 1815 Catherine Juliana, eldest dau. of Sir Hugh Bateman, Bart., Hartington Hall, Derbs.; m. 2nd, 8 Nov 1848 Lydia, widow of Rev. Edmund Robinson, Thorp Green, Yorks., and younger dau. of Rev. Thomas Gisborne, Prebendary of Durham; d. 27 Dec 1851.

SCOTT, FRANCIS, EARL OF DALKEITH, eldest son of Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch (S) KT, and his first wife Lady Jane Douglas, second dau. of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry (S) and 1st Duke of Dover (GB); b. 19 Feb 1720/1; adm. Jul 1731; went to Eton Coll. 1732; styled Earl of Dalkeith 1732-50; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1739; MA 26 Jan 1741/2; LLD Cambridge 1749; MP Boroughbridge from 22 Apr 1746; m. 2 Oct 1742 Lady Caroline Campbell (afterwards Baroness Greenwich), eldest dau. of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll KG KT, Field Marshal in the Army; d. 1 Apr 1750.

SEBRIGHT, SIR JOHN SAUNDERS, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Sebright Saunders, Bart. (qv); bapt. 19 Oct 1725; adm. Feb 1734/5; left 1741; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 18 Apr 1741; Lieut. and Capt., 20 Feb 1744; Capt. -Lieut., 2 May 1749; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 20 Nov 1750; Col., 83rd Foot 14 Oct 1758-60 [?], 52nd Foot 27 Nov 1760 – Apr 1762; Major-Gen., 13 Oct 1761; Col., 18th Foot, from 1 Apr 1762; Lieut. -Gen., 30 Apr 1770; Gen., 20 Nov 1782; succ, brother as 6th baronet 25 Oct 1761; MP Bath 28 Apr 1763-74, 24 Nov 1775-80; JP Hertfordshire; m. 15 May 1766 Sarah, third dau. of Edward Knight, Wolverley, Worcs.; d. 23 Feb 1794.

SEBRIGHT, SIR JOHN SAUNDERS, BART., eldest son of Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart. (qv); b. 23 May 1767; adm. 4 Feb 1778; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 6 Apr 1785; Lieut. and Capt., 11 Jul 1792; retd. 3 Oct 1794; succ. father as 7th baronet 23 Feb 1794; JP Hertfordshire, High Sheriff 1797-8; MP Hertfordshire 1807-34; urged the amendment of the game laws, to which he attributed increased rural crime; protested against monopolies of all kinds; seconded Lord John Russell’s motion for leave to bring in the first Reform Bill 1 Mar 1831; a practical agriculturalist and breeder of domestic animals, including the “Sebright bantam”; author, The Art of Improving the Breeds of Domestic Animals, 1809, Observations on Hawking, 1826, and Observations upon the Instinct of Animals, 1836; m. 6 Aug 1793 Harriet, only dau. of Richard Croftes MP, West Harling, Norfolk; d. 15 Apr 1846. DNB.