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About Sir Henry Savile
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 English. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Bossiney in Cornwall in 1589, and Dunwich in Suffolk in 1593.
Everything about Sir Henry Savile →- Occupation
- mathematician, translator, Bible translator, politician
- Position held
- Member of the 1589 Parliament, Member of the 1593 Parliament, warden, provost
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- November 30, 1549
- Died
- February 19, 1622