SAY, WILLIAM, brother of Robert Say (qv) (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 2 Jun 1717 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Mar 1731/2.
SAY, ROBERT, son of Robert Say, St. James’s, Westminster, and Catherine ---; bapt. St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 4 Nov 1710; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1723; in school list 1729; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1729/30; BA 1733; migr. to Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. 6 Jun 1739; MA 1739; ordained deacon (Norwich) 9 Jun 1734; Rector of Swaffham, Norfolk 1738-48 (and Rector of Beachamwell, Norfolk); Rector of Houghton on the Hill, Norfolk, and of North Pickenham, Norfolk, from 1748; m.; d. 30 Jun 1764.
SAY, FRANCIS, son of Hugh Say, Ludgate Hill, London, citizen and merchant taylor, and Mary Ward; bapt. St. Anne’s, Blackfriars 18 Oct 1689 (IGI); adm.; QS 1704; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1708, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1708, aged 18, scholar 13 May 1709, matr. 1709; BA 1711/2; MA 1715; adm. Middle Temple 20 Oct 1719; private secretary to five successive Bishops of Ely, and in that capacity endeavoured to settle amicably the disputes between Richard Bentley and the Fellows of Trinity Coll.; Librarian to Queen Caroline at St. James’s Mar – Dec 1737; d. 10 Sep 1748.
SAWYER, SIR ROBERT, sixth son of Sir Edmund Sawyer, Kt, Heywood, Maidenhead, Berks., Auditor of the Exchequer, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Sir William Whitmore, Kt, Apley, Shropshire; bapt. 20 Sep 1633; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1648 (Chapter Muniments 43054); Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1648, matr. Mich. 1648; “chamber fellow” of Samuel Pepys (Pepys, Diary, ed. Wheatley, vi, 81, vii, 229, viii, 30); Craven Scholar 16 May 1649; BA 1651/2; MA 1655 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1655); Goche Fellow, Magdalene Coll. 1652, Dennis Fellow 1654; adm. Inner Temple Nov 1653, called to bar 26 May 1661, Bencher 28 Oct 1677, Treasurer Oct 1683 – Oct 1688; practised in Court of Exchequer and on Oxford Circuit; KC (query date); MP Chipping Wycombe Nov 1673 – Jan 1678/9, Cambridge Univ. Jan 1688/9 – 20 Jan 1689/90 (when expelled for his conduct in the case of Sir Thomas Armstrong in 1684) and from Feb 1689/90; knighted 17 Oct 1677; Speaker, House of Commons 11 Apr – 6 May 1678, resigning on grounds of health; assisted in drafting the Exclusion Bill of 1678; Attorney-Gen., 14 Feb 1681 – Dec 1687; represented the Crown when the case against the Charter of the City of London was argued Apr 1682; conducted Rye House Plot prosecutions 1683-4; appeared against Algernon Sidney Nov 1683 and against Titus Oates May 1685; senior counsel for the Seven Bishops Jun 1688; for a summary of his character and career see Macaulay, History of England, 1855, iii, 524-8; lic. to m. 1 Jul 1665 Margaret, dau. of Ralph Suckling, Canonbury House, Islington, Middlesex; d. 28 Jul 1692. DNB.
SAWYER, EDMUND, brother of Charles Sawyer (qv); b. 13 Dec 1816; adm. 9 Jun 1828 (Stikeman's); KS 1829; left 1834; adm. Middle Temple 11 Jan 1837, called to bar 31 Jan 1840; equity draftsman and conveyancer; living Bray, Berks., not practising at bar, 1881 (1881 Census); still in Law List 1900, but without address.
SAWYER, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Sawyer, Heywood Lodge, Maidenhead, Berks., and Henrietta, eldest dau. of Adm. Sir George Bowyer, Bart., MP; b. 19 Jul 1813; adm. 19 Sep 1825 (Stikeman's); left Jun 1828; St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 13 Apr 1831; Ensign, 3rd Foot 6 Sep 1833; Lieut., 8 Apr 1836; Capt., 8 Aug 1845; 6th Dragoon Guards 12 Jun 1846; Maj., 1 Aug 1856; Lieut. -Col., 20 Jul 1858; Col., 30 Jul 1864; Major-Gen., 11 Jan 1870; ret. with hon. rank Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jul 1881; served in Crimean War and Indian Mutiny; landowner in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire; m. 15 Aug 1840 Anna Maria, dau. of Capt. John Fam Timins, Hatfield, Herts.; d. 2 Jan 1892.
SAWYER, ---; b.; at school c. 1662 (Busby’s Account Book).
SAWYER, ---; b.; in under school lists 1729, 1730.
Sawers, Desmond Robin Briscoe (subsequently Robin Desmond Briscoe), brother of David Richard Hall Sawers (qv); b. 2 Jan. 1935; adm. Sept. 1948 (A); left July 1953; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1953, BA 1956, MA 1964; Brit. Council Schol. Univ. of Münster, Germany 1957-8; German and French editor George G. Harrap & Co, publishers, 1959-84, chief mod. languages editor 1973-84; sen. editor OUP German Dictionaries 1984-8; man. editor Oxford Hachette; freelance editor, lexicographer and translator 1990-2005; editor English Music Festival and EM Publishing; m. 6 Jun 1966 Eva-Maria Sawers, translator and lexicographer, d. of Herbert Josef Weisser, dentist, Ried im Innkreis, Austria; d. 2018.
SAWELL, THOMAS, son of Robert Sawell, Woburn, Beds., schoolmaster; b.; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1745/6 (Gibson's); KS 1749; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1753, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1753, scholar 3 May 1754; BA 1757; MA 1770; usher at his father’s school at Apsley, Beds.; ordained; Rector of Wavendon, Bucks., 2 Apr 1768, but resigned same year; Rector of Battlesden with Potsgrove, Beds., from 2 Jul 1775; Rector of Milbrooke, Beds. (disp. to hold with Battlesden 1775); lic. to m. 25 Oct 1775 Fanny Davies, St. Giles in the Fields, London; d. 6 Aug 1784.