biography
pronunciation:
[savil]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1549–1622)
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| biography:
| Scholar and courtier, born in Bradley, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, was appointed warden of Merton in 1585, and provost of Eton in 1596. He translated part of the histories of Tacitus (1591) and the Cyropaedia of Xenophon. He also published the first edition of St John Chrysostom (1610–13). He helped Sir Thomas Bodley in the founding of the Bodleian Library, and in 1619 he founded the Savilian chairs of mathematics and astronomy at Oxford. |
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