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Henry Savile (Bible translator)
English scholar and mathematician (1549ā1622) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people with the same name, see Henry Savile (disambiguation).
Sir Henry Savile (30 November 1549 ā 19 February 1622)[1] was an English scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton.[2] 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.[3]
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