- SAVILLE, SIR HENRY
- a learned scholar, born in Yorkshire; was tutor to Queen Elizabeth and provost of Eton, and founder of the Savilian professorships of Geometry and Astronomy at Oxford (1549-1642).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
SAVILLE, SIR HENRY
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