Henry Savile (Bible translator)

For other people with the same name, see Henry Savile (disambiguation).

Henry Savile in 1621. School of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

Sir Henry Savile (30 November 1549 – 19 February 1622)[1] was an English scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton.[2] He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy and of Geometry at Oxford University, and was one of the scholars who translated the New Testament from Greek into English. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Bossiney in Cornwall in 1589, and Dunwich in Suffolk in 1593.[3]

  1. ^ Goulding, R. D. "Savile, Sir Henry (1549–1622)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24737. Retrieved 1 March 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Hammer, Paul E. J. (1999). The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597. Cambridge University Press. p. 302. ISBN 0521434858.
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