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SAVILE, SIR HENRY (15491622)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 243 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SAVILE, SIR HENRY (15491622) , warden of Merton College, Oxford, and provost of Eton, was the son of

Henry

Savile of Bradley, near

Halifax

, in Yorkshire, a member of an old county family, the Saviles of Methley, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ramsden. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1561. He became a fellow of Merton in 1565, proceeded B.A. in 1566, and
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M.A. in 1570. He established a reputation as a Greek scholar and mathematician by voluntary lectures on the Almagest, and in 1575 became junior proctor. In 1578 he travelled on the continent of Europe, where he collected manuscripts and is said to have been employed by Queen Elizabeth as her

resident

RESIDENT

in the Low Countries. On his return he was named Greek tutor to the queen, and in 1535 was established as warden of Merton by a vigorous exercise of the

interest

INTEREST

of Lord Burghley and Secretary Walsingham. He proved a successful and autocratic head under whom the college flourished. A translation of four Books of the Histories of Tacitus, with a learned Commentary on Roman Warfare in 1591, enhanced his reputation. On the 26th of May 1596 he obtained the provostship of Eton, the reward of persistent begging. He was not qualified for the post by the statutes of the college, for he was not in orders, and the queen was reluctant to name him. Savile insisted with considerable ingenuity that the queen had a right to dispense with statutes, and at last he got his way. In February 16o1 he was put under arrest on suspicion of having been concerned in the rebellion of the

earl

EARL

of Essex. He was soon released and his friendship with the

faction

FACTION (through the French, from Lat. factio, a company of persons combined for action, facere, to do; from the other French derivative facon comes " fashion ")

of Essex went far to gain him the favour of James I. So no doubt did the views he had maintained in regard to the statutes of Eton. It may have been to his advantage that his elder brother, Sir John Savile (15451607); was a high prerogative lawyer, and was one of the barons of the exchequer who in ,6o6 affirmed the right of the king to impose import and export duties on his own authority. On the 3oth of September 1604 Savile was knighted, and in that year:he was named one of the

body

BODY

of scholars appointed to prepare the authorized version of the Bible. He was entrusted with parts of the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation. In 1604 died the only son born of his

marriage

MARRIAGE

in 1592 with Margaret Dacre, and Sir

Henry

Savile is thought to have been induced by this loss to devote the bulk of his fortune to the promotion of learning, though he had a daughter who survived him and who became the mother of the dramatist Sir Charles

Sedley

SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES (c. 1639-1701)

. His edition of Chrysostom in eight folio volumes was published in 16101613. It was printed by the king's printer, William Norton, in a private press erected at the expense of Sir Henry, who imported the type. The Chrysostom, which cost him 8000 and did not sell well, was the most considerable

work

WORK

of pure learning undertaken in England in his time. At the same press he published an edition of the Cyropaedia in 1618. In 1619 he founded and endowed his professorships of geometry and astronomy at Oxford. He died at Eton on the 19th of February 1622. Sir Henry Savile has been sometimes confounded with another Henry Savile, called " Long Harry " (1570-1617), who gave currency to the forged addition to the Chronide of Asser which contains the story that King Alfred founded the university of Oxford.
A brother, Thomas SAVILE (d. 1593), was also a member of Merton College, Oxford, and had some reputation as a scholar.
See W. D. Macrae, Annals of the Bodleian Library (London, 1868) ; Sir N. C. Maxwell-Lyte, History of Eton College (3rd ed., London, 1899) ; and John Aubrey, Lives of Eminent Men (London, 1898).

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