Henry Savile, English scholar and politician (born 1549)

Henry Savile (Bible translator)

English scholar and mathematician (1549–1622)

Sir Henry Savile was an English scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. 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…