LC control no. | n 85195615 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Savile, Henry, Sir, 1549-1622 |
Variant(s) | Savilius, Henricus, 1549-1622 |
Associated place | Oxford (England) Dunwich (England) |
Birth date | 1549-11-30 |
Death date | 1622-02-19 |
Affiliation | Merton College University of Oxford Eton College England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons |
Profession or occupation | Scholars College presidents Mathematicians Translators |
Found in | Catalogue of a selection of very curious and rare books, 1860: title page (Sir Henry Savile) DNB (Savile, Sir Henry, 1549-1622; scholar) InU/Wing STC files (usage: Henrici Savilii ...) Wikipedia, 22 November 2019 (Sir Henry Savile (30 November 1549-19 February 1622) 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) |