SAVILLE, SIR HENRY

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. . 1907.

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