Savile, SIR HENRY, a learned scholar, was born in Yorkshire, 30th November 1549, entered Brasenose College, Oxford, but migrated in 1561 to Merton College, where he was elected to a fellowship. He travelled on the Continent (1578), after his return was Queen Elizabeth's tutor in Greek and mathematics, became Warden of Merton College in 1585, Provost of Eton in 1596, was knighted in 1604, and died February 19, 1622. Three years before he had founded chairs of Geometry and Astronomy at Oxford which still bear his name.
His principal works are Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam precipui (1596), a folio containing the works of William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Roger Hoveden, and Ingulph; Commentaries concerning Roman Warfare (1598); Power Books of the Histories and the Agricola of Tacitus (1581); and a magnificent edition of St Chrysostom's works (8 vols. folio, 1610-13), a work which cost £8000, one-fourth for paper alone.