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HOW LADY DOROTHY BLAZED A TRAIL FOR SAVILE ROW


Savile Row was built between 1731 and 1735 and is named after Lady Dorothy


Savile, wife of the 3rd Earl of Burlington. Here, Mayfair historian Tyne O’Connell tells the story of one of London’s most flamboyant and influential people


OROTHY SAVILE, ADORED BY the majority of London’s artistic and royal circles, blazed a trail across early 18th-century London as the leading luminary of cultural salon life. Her mother, Lady Mary Finch, was the daughter of the great Earl of Nottingham and Winchelsea while her father was the Marquis of Halifax. Lady Mary was her husband’s second wife but their long running affair provided decades of scandal before the death of his first wife enabled them to marry. Dorothy’s father died the year after her birth, making her one of the wealthiest heiresses of the age. A few men bitterly resented such a young girl having more power and wealth than most, with her own uncle describing her as “the wickedest mischievous jade upon earth” From an early age as one of the


young maids of Queen Anne’s bedchamber, she mixed with some of the most illustrious figures of the era including Anne Finch,


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