SAYVE, PETER, son of Peter Sayve, London; b.; adm.; KS 1681; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1686, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1686, aged 18, scholar 15 Apr 1687; BA 1689/90; MA 1693; BD 1701; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1692, Major Fellow 20 Jun 1694 -–c. 1705; ordained deacon 11 Jun 1693, priest 5 Nov 1693 (both London); Vicar of Masham, with Kirkby Malzeard, Yorks., from 1703; m. Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Thomas Rokeby, Rokeby, Yorks.; buried Kirkby Malzeard, Yorks., 11 Sep 1732.
Sayers, Gerald Fleming, son of Major Robert Cecil Bowyer-Brydges-Sayers, of Barnes, by Emma Ellen, daughter of William Ketley, of Bishops Stortford, Herts; b. Jan. 19, 1893; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (A); left Easter 1910; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric Michaelmas 1911; B.A. 1914; entered Colonial Admin. Service 1914; served in Kenya 1914-20; Tanganyika 1920-3; Nyasaland 1933-5; deputy chief secretary Tanganyika 1935; acted as chief sec. and Governor's Deputy on many occasions; retired 1939; Min. of War Transport 1939-45; Commonwealth Affairs advisor, Conservative Research Dept. since 1945; author of The Handbook of Tanganyika (1930); editor of Commonwealth Affairs (1952); m. Nov. 19, 1927, Mary Violet, daughter of George Lionel Garth, of Dacca, Bengal.
SAYER, WILLIAM, third son of John Sayer, Pett Place, Charing, Kent, and Charlotte Sibella, eldest dau. of Rev. William Crawley, Vicar of Flaxley, Gloucs.; b. 7 Nov 1854; adm. 27 Sep 1867 (G); QS 1869; left Whitsun 1873; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 May 1873; BA 1877; adm. solicitor Mar 1881; practised in London; m. 30 Jul 1888 Annie Elizabeth Georgiana, dau. of Henry Poore Cox; d. 2 Apr 1912.
SAYER, ROBERT, son of Jonathan Sayer, Wallingford, Berks.; b.; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1713; d. 1713.
SAYER, ROBERT, son of John Sayer, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, and Lincoln’s Inn [check if barrister], and Katherine, dau. of Rear-Adm. Robert Hughes; b. 29 Jul 1715; adm. (aged 8) Sep 1724; KS 1730; spoke a set of Latin verses of his own composition before William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 16 May 1730; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1732; BA 1736; MA 1741; MB 1742; medical practitioner, London; m. 3 Jan 1746 (IGI) Mary Denham; dead by 1776.
SAYER, JOHN, son of George Sayer (adm. 1732, qv); bapt. Charing, Kent 21 Aug 1758 (IGI); adm. 23 Sep 1769; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Jun 1776, aged 17; Ensign, 18th Foot 25 Oct 1777; Lieut., 28 Dec 1778; Capt., 89th Foot 22 Oct 1779; Maj., 23 Apr 1783; half-pay 1783; Maj., 25th Foot 14 Dec 1792; 1st Foot 24 Apr 1793; ret. 3 Aug 1793; m. 1786 Charlotte, dau. of Charles Van, Llanwern, Monmouthshire; d. 1 Feb 1799.