Dorothy Savile, Viscountess Halifax

{{For|her daughter-in-law|Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington}}

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{{Infobox peer

| name = {{unbulleted list|{{small|{{nobold|The Right Honourable}}}}|The Viscountess Halifax}}

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| caption = Lady Dorothy, Marchioness of Halifax, by Jan van der Vaart

| birth_name = Dorothy Spencer

| birth_date = 1640

| death_date = {{death date and age|1670|12|16|1640|df=yes}}

| spouse = {{marriage|George Savile, 1st Viscount Halifax|1656}}

| issue = {{unbulleted list|William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax|Anne Savile}}

| parents = {{unbulleted list|Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland|Dorothy Sidney}}

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Dorothy Savile, Viscountess Halifax (née Spencer; 1640John Pearson, Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals (London, U.K.: HarperCollins, 1999), endpiece. – 16 December 1670) was the first wife of George Savile, 1st Viscount Halifax, and the mother of the 2nd Marquess.

Dorothy was the daughter of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, and his wife, the former Lady Dorothy Sidney (or Sydney).Kenyon, J.P. Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland 1641-1702 Longman Green and Co. 1958 p. 5

Lady Dorothy married George Savile on 29 December 1656, at St Giles in the Fields in London.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 243. They had two children:

• William Savile, 2nd Marquess of HalifaxKenyon p. 228
• Anne Savile, later Countess of Carbery (c.1663-1690)

In 1667, George Savile was created Viscount Halifax. Following his wife's death, he remarried, in 1672, his second wife being Gertrude Pierrepont, daughter of William Pierrepont of Thoresby. His elevation to the title of Marquess of Halifax came in 1682, some years after Dorothy's death.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 49. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 99. {{ISBN|0-19-861399-7}}.Article by Mark N. Brown.