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Sir Henry Savile (
November 30 1549 –
February 19,
1622), Warden of
Merton College, Oxford, and
Provost of Eton, was the son of Henry Savile of Bradley, near
Halifax in
Yorkshire,
England, 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. 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 in the
Low Countries.
On his return he was named Greek Tutor to the Queen, and in 1585 was established as Warden of Merton by a vigorous exercise of the 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
May 26,
1596 he obtained the provostship of Eton, the reward of persistent begging. He wasn't qualified for the post by the statutes of the College, for he wasn't 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
1601 he was put under arrest on suspicion of having been concerned in the rebellion of the
Earl of Essex.
He was soon released and his friendship with the faction of Essex went far to gain him the favour of
James I. So no doubt did the views he'd maintained in regard to the statutes of Eton. It may have been to his advantage that his elder brother,
Sir John Savile (
1545–
1607), was a high prerogative lawyer and one of the barons of the exchequer who in 1606 affirmed the right of the king to impose import and export duties on his own authority.
On
30 September,
1604 Savile was knighted, and in that year he was named one of the 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 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'd a daughter who survived him and who became the mother of the dramatist
Sir Charles Sedley.
His edition of
Chrysostom in eight folio volumes was published in
1610–
1613. It was printed by the king's printer in a private press erected at the expense of Sir Henry, who imported the type. The
Chrysostom, which cost him £8000 and didn't sell well, was the most considerable 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
19 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
Chronicle 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. His only child Elizabeth married Sir Sir John Sedley and was mother of Sir
Charles Sedley.
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