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  Savile biography
Henry Savile entered Brasenose College Oxford in 1561 and he was elected a Fellow of Merton College Oxford in 1565.
Savile introduced his students to the new ideas of Regiomontanus and Copernicus.
Students did not understand the importance of the subject, Savile wrote, there were no teachers to explain the difficult points, the texts written by the leading mathematicians of the day were not studied, and no overall approach to the teaching of mathematics had been formulated.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Savile.html   (1207 words)

  
  Medieval English genealogy: The Savile Family
THOMAS SAVILE, of Lupset, younger son of Sir John Savile, Knt., of Thornhill (VI), and Alice, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, of Gawthorpe, Knt.; valet of the Crown.
HENRY SAVILE, Esq., of Lupset and Barrowby, ju.
To be buried in the chancel of the parish
www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk /sources/saville/clay3.shtml   (1878 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Henry Savile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Sir Henry Savile (1549 –; February 19, 1622), warden of Merton College, Oxford, and provost of Eton, was the son of Henry Savile of Bradley, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, a member of an old county family, the Saviles of Methley, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ramsden.
It may have been to his advantage that his elder brother, Sir John Savile (1545-1607); was a high prerogative lawyer, and was one of the barons of the exchequer who in 1606 affirmed the right of the king to impose import and export duties on his own authority.
On September 30, 1604 Savile was knighted, and in that year he was named one of the body of scholars appointed to prepare the authorized version of the Bible.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Henry-Savile   (663 words)

  
 Sir Henry Savile, KNT
Savile,” on the list of Translators, was the renowned scholar afterwards known as Sir Henry Savile.
Savile was born at Bradley, in Yorkshire, November 30th, 1549, “of ancient and worshipful extraction.” He graduated at Brazen Nose College, Oxford; but afterwards became a Fellow of Merton College.
It is enough for our purpose, that Sir Henry Savile was one of the most profound, exact, and critical scholars of his age; and meet and ripe to take a prominent part in the preparation of our incomparable version.
members.tripod.com /bible_study/translators/hsavile.html   (1024 words)

  
 The Savile Map of Bath c.1600
Savile is far larger and more detailed than Speed.) In despair, she sold this precious source for the history of Bath to a private collector, who earlier this year agreed to loan it to the exhibition of Bath Abbey prints at Baytun's bookshop.
Savile shows the drinking water fountain erected in the King's Bath in 1599, but the house immediately north of the Cross Bath seems to be shown before its rebuilding in 1602.
Savile was the first to draw detailed plans of the city's main baths and his history and description of the city stresses the therapeutic qualities of the waters.
www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Bath/Tudor/SavileMap.htm   (1227 words)

  
 Medieval English genealogy: Notes on the early Saville pedigree and the Butlers of Skelbrook and Kirk Sandal
THOMAS DE SAVILLE, 5.C., was the son of Baldwin, 4.E. He does not occur in any of the Wakefield entries relating to his father.
Hugh was attached by John son of Henry de Dewesbery and Henry son of Jul[iana] of the same (Assize Roll 1098, Trin.
HENRY DE SAVILLE, 5.G., son of Baldwin, 4.E. He only occurs once in the Wakefield Rolls, in 1306, when Joan daughter of Walter de Heton sued Henry son of Baldwin de Sayville for trespass (Record Series, vol.
www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk /sources/saville/baildon3.shtml   (2596 words)

  
 Merton College, Oxford: Eminent Mertonians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Savile was born at Bradley in Yorkshire and was educated at Brasenose College before being elected a Fellow of Merton in 1561.
When Savile was elected Warden in 1585, updating both the fixtures and the contents of the library was one of his first projects.
In 1596 Savile lobbied successfully for the position of Provost of Eton College, a post he held concurrently with his Wardenship.
www.merton.ox.ac.uk /generalinfo/eminent_savile.htm   (343 words)

  
 GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF HALIFAX - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE SAVILE, 1ST MARQUESS OF HALIFAX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
English statesman and writer, great-grandson of Sir George Savile of Lupset and Thornhill in Yorkshire (created baronet In 161,), was the eldest son of Sir William Savile, 3rd baronet, who distinguished himself in the civil war in the royalist cause and who died in 1644, and of Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Keeper Coventry.
In January 1691 Halifax had an interview with Henry Bulkeley, the Jacobite agent, and is said to have promised to do everything that lay in his power to serve the icing.
Henry Savile, British envoy at Versailles, who died unmarried in 1687, was a younger brother of the first marquess.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HALIFAX_GEORGE_SAVILE_1ST_MARQUESS_OF.htm   (3930 words)

  
 George_Savile,_1st_Marquess_of_Halifax
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (November 11, 1633 - April 5, 1695) was an English statesman, writer, and politician.
He was the great-grandson of Sir George Savile of Lupset and Thornhill in Yorkshire (created baronet in 1611,) was the eldest son of Sir William Savile, 3rd baronet, who distinguished himself in the civil war in the royalist cause and who died in 1644, and of Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Keeper Coventry.
In January 1691, Halifax had an interview with Henry Bulkeley, the Jacobite agent, and is said to have promised "to do everything that lay in his power to serve the icing." This was probably merely a measure of precaution, for he had no serious Jacobite leanings.
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 SIR GEORGE SAVILE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR GEORGE SAVILE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Horace Walpole says Savile had a large fortune and a larger mind, and Burke had also a very high opinion of him.
Richard took the additional name of Savile, but when on his brothers death in 1807 he became 6th earl of Scarborough the Savile estates passed to his brother John (1760-1835), afterwards the 7th earl.
The 8th earl was never married, but he left four natural sons, the eldest of whom was John Savile (1818-1896), the diplomatist, who was created Baron Savile of Rufford in 1888.
57.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAVILE_SIR_GEORGE.htm   (321 words)

  
 Savile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Henry Savile entered Brasenose College Oxford in 1561 and he was elected a Fellow of Merton College Oxford in 1565.
Savile introduced his students to the new ideas of Regiomontanus and Copernicus.
Students did not understand the importance of the subject, Savile wrote, there were no teachers to explain the difficult points, the texts written by the leading mathematicians of the day were not studied, and no overall approach to the teaching of mathematics had been formulated.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Savile.html   (1155 words)

  
 The identity of the mathematical practitioner in 16th-century England
It was not until Prince Henry became the focus of a precocious but short-lived court in the years around 1610 that the role of the mathematician was again established as a permanent and salaried fixture in an English prince’s entourage.
Savile’s principal subject was astronomy, but his surviving notes show that he placed his detailed exposition within the wider context of the mathematical sciences.
Savile extended his mathematical interests during a continental tour (1579–82), when he collected and collated Greek manuscripts and established contact with European scholars who were subsequently to become his correspondents.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /staff/saj/texts/mathematicus.htm   (8422 words)

  
 Royal Family of Europe - pafg95 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Francis SAVILE was born in 1604 in Pomfret, Yorks, England.
Thomas SAVILLE was born on 14 Sep 1587.
Henry SAVILE was born about 1588 in Doddington Pigot, Lincolnshire, England.
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 February 19th
Born: Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer, 1473, Thom, in Prussia: Henry Frederick Prince of Wales, 1594, Stirling Castle; Admiral Lord Rodney, 1718, Walton-on-Thames; Richard Cumberland, dramatist, 1732, Cambridge; Sir Roderick I. Murchison, geologist, 1792, Tarradale, Rossshire.
HENRY PRINCE OF It is blessed to the in promise, rather than after all the blots and mischances of performance.
Nevertheless, in the early death of Henry Prince of Wales there is no room to doubt that the national bewailment was just.
www.thebookofdays.com /months/feb/19.htm   (1285 words)

  
 Henry SAVILE (Sir)
Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and provost of Eton, was the son of Henry Savile of Bradley, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, a member of an old county family, the Saviles of Methley, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ramsden.
Savile insisted with considerable ingenuity that the Queen had a right to dispense with statutes, and at last he got his way.
On 30 Sep 1604 Savile was knighted, and in that year he was named one of the body of scholars appointed to prepare the authorized version of the Bible.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/HenrySavile.htm   (589 words)

  
 Lords of the Manor
John landed at Milford Haven with Henry Tudor in August 1485 and was at the Battle of Bosworth.
After Henry was crowned and married to Elizabeth of York, John and her sister Cecily were married around 1487 when he was created a Viscount.
His son was to be Kings Champion to all of Henry’s three children at their crownings, but under Elizabeth the Dymokes did not prosper, Sir Robert, in 1580 is said to have died a captive recusant at Lincoln (he was implicated in the Pilgrimage of Grace, fortunately being Kings Champion saved him and the title.
www.methley-village.fsnet.co.uk /body_lords_of_the_manor.html   (1937 words)

  
 english cut: bespoke savile row tailors: savile row who's who....
Also, when a popular book was written about Savile Row in the late 'eighties, the whole trade was clamouring to be involved.
Henry Poole's, I believe they're the oldest on Savile Row.
You have the aforementioned big flagship stores on Savile Row, however the tailors inside those grand buildings are actually quite nomadic.
www.englishcut.com /archives/000029.html   (1321 words)

  
 Henry Savile -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In February 1601 he was put under arrest on suspicion of having been concerned in the rebellion of the (Click link for more info and facts about earl of Essex) earl of Essex.
On September 30, 1604 Savile was knighted, and in that year he was named one of the body of scholars appointed to prepare the authorized version of (Click link for more info and facts about the Bible) the Bible.
His edition of (Click link for more info and facts about Chrysostom) Chrysostom in eight folio volumes was published in 1610-1613.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/henry_savile.htm   (597 words)

  
 Sir Henry Savile, KNT
Savile,” on the list of Translators, was the renowned scholar afterwards known as Sir Henry Savile.
Sir Henry’s wife was Margaret, daughter of George Dacrews, of Cheshunt, Esq.
Bois, who rendered Sir Henry much assistance in that laborious undertaking, meekly replied, that “so to do were great pity.” To him, the lady said, “Why, who was Chrysostom?” “One of the sweetest preachers since the apostles’ times,” answered the enthusiastic Bois.
www.wilderness-cry.net /bible_study/translators/hsavile.html   (1024 words)

  
 Brief history
Elizabeth married Thomas Kay of Newsome; Cecily married Thomas Savile of Eckesley (Exley), and Jennet (or Joanna) married John Savile of New Hall, Elland.
Sir Henry was tutor to Queen Elizabeth, Provost of Eton College, and Warden of Merton College, Oxford where he was responsible for building the Fellows' Quad and inspiring work at the Bodleian Library.
John Savile died young and in 1531 his widow, Jennet Wood of Longley, married her cousin, William Ramsden, the brother of Elizabeth.
www.longleyoldhall.co.uk /brief_history.htm   (657 words)

  
 RENAISSANCE MAN, Series 1, Part 1
Henry VIII joins the War of the Holy League, combining with Germany and Spain to protect papal dominions from the French.
Henry VIII subsequently entertains and forms an alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. Francis I establishes the Royal Library of France at Fontainbleau.
Henry VIII is declared the Supreme Head of the Church of England by the Act of Supremacy.
www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /digital_guides/ren_man_series1_prt1/chronology.aspx   (5181 words)

  
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In the western range of the house, for instance, are the remains of the undercroft and the magnificently vaulted lay brothers' refractory from the time when, between 1148 and 1170, Cistercian monks from Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire first established an abbey at Rufford.
Sir John Savile died in 1896 and was followed by his nephew who was known as a great socialite.
When the 2nd Lord Savile died in 1931, his son and heir, George, was still a minor and by 1938 the problem of meeting rising taxes and wages, together with reduced income from farm rents forced his trustees into selling the Rufford estate.
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 Savilian Chairs
The Savilian Chair of Geometry was founded in 1619 at the University of Oxford by Henry Savile.
See Savile's biography for details of what the professors were required to teach.
Again, see Savile's biography for details of what the professors were required to teach.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/Savilian.html   (54 words)

  
 SAVILE, SIR HENRY (1549—1622) - Online Information article about SAVILE, SIR HENRY (1549—1622)
Eton, was the son of Henry Savile of See also:
September 1604 Savile was knighted, and in that See also:
Margaret Dacre, and Sir Henry Savile is thought to have been induced by this loss to devote the bulk of his See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAR_SCY/SAVILE_SIR_HENRY_15491622_.html   (912 words)

  
 Descendants of Edward III
King Henry IV of England, born 1367 Apr 3, deposed King Richard II 1399 Sep 29, died 1413 Mar 20; married 1st, 1380/81, Lady Mary de BOHUN (Hereford, E) (born ca 1370, died 1394 Jun 4); married 2nd, as 2nd husband, 1403 Feb 7, Princess Joan of Navarre (born ca 1370, died 1437 Jul 9).
King Henry V of England, born 1387 Sep 16, died 1422 Aug 31; married 1420 Jun 2, as 1st husband, Princess Catherine of France (born 1401 Oct 27, died 1437 Jan 3).
King Henry VII of England, born 1457 Jan 28, died 1509 Apr 21; married 1486 Jan 18, Princess Elizabeth of England (born 1465 Feb 11, died 1503 Feb 11).
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 TRANSLATION - LoveToKnow Article on TRANSLATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Adlingtons version of Apuleius, TJnderdowns renderings of Heliodorus and Ovid, the translations of Livy, Pliny, Suetonius and Xenophon issued in quick succession by Philemon Holland are vivid and aften extravagantly picturesque in their conveyance of classic authors into Elizabethan prose.
With them must be named the translator of Tacitus (1591), Sir Henry Savile, who served later on the committee which prepared the Authorized Version of the Bible, and must therefore be counted amongst those who have exercised a permanent influence on English prose style.
Thomas Shelton produced the earliest translation (1612) of Don Quixote, a version which, in spite of its inaccuracies and freakishness, preserves much of the tone and atmosphere of the original.
57.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TRANSLATION.htm   (4836 words)

  
 NEW SERIES
As a result of Savile's interest in him, Hales became Fellow of Merton in 1606, and thereupon began a friendship with Savile that lasted until Sir Henry's death in 1622.
Sir Henry was a man of wide acquaintance and many interests, and his circle of friends included not only the foremost scholars in England but also many important figures in the world of affairs.
Somewhat earlier Savile had chosen him to assist in the editing of the complete works of St. Chrysostom, a project which Sir Henry hoped would secure his fame as a patron of letters.
www.hales.org /nsv2n4.htm   (7584 words)

  
 B-P's Father: Reverend Professor Baden Powell.
Henry Powell (1809-1867), brother of Baden Powell, was appointed a Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College by the Mercers' Company i July 1865 and served until his passing in 1867.
The Savilian Chair of Geometry was founded in 1619 at the University of Oxford by Sir Henry Savile.
Additional biographical information about Sir Henry Savile is found at the website of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-father.htm   (2145 words)

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