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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.

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.

Saward, George Alexander Douglas, son of Group Capt. Norman Cuthbert Saward RAF, of Ashford, Kent, and Valeria, d. of Prof. Alexander Polestchowk of Leningrad, Russia; b. 7 Mar. 1935; adm. Jan. 1949 (B); left July 1953; a television executive for Granada Television, Southern Television, BBC and Sky News; press officer, Harlequin Football Club; d. 2022.

SAVILE, BOURCHIER WREY, second son of Albany Savile MP, Oaklands, Devon, and Eleonora Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bart.; b. 11 Mar 1817; adm. 23 Jan 1828 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; left 1835; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge; BA 1839; MA 1842; ordained deacon (Worcester) 26 Jul 1840, priest (Winchester) 11 Jul 1841; Curate, Halesowen, Shropshire 1840-1; Vicar of Okehampton, Devon 1841 [check]; Rector of Dunchideock, with Shillingford St. George, Devon, from 1872; author, Anglo-Israelism and the Great Pyramid, 1880, and theological works; m. 28 Apr 1842 Mary Elizabeth, third dau. of James Whyte, Pilton House, Devon; d. 14 Apr 1888. DNB.

SAVAGE, SIR WILLIAM, son of William Savage, Bloxworth, Dorset, and Grace ---; b. 14 May 1687; adm.; QS 1702; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1704, aged 17, scholar 2 May 1705, matr. 1704; adm. Middle Temple 8 Feb 1705/6, called to bar 11 May 1711; Solicitor-Gen., Barbados 1714; knighted 21 Mar 1721; m. Thomazin, widow of Wardell Andrews, Barbados, and dau. of Col. Thomas Thornhill; d. Nov 1721.

Savage, Patrick Morris Boscawen, son of Lieut.-Col. Morris Boscawen Savage CBE DSO, South Staffs Regt, of Lichfield, and Helen Elise Tovil QARNS, d. of Timothy William Tovell, estate manager; b. 21 Aug. 1916; adm. Jan. 1930 (G); left July 1935; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1939, MA 1945; RMC Sandhurst, 2nd Lieut. South Staffs Regt 1940, Lieut. and Cipher Officer HQ Crete 1940, Capt. attd Roy. Corps of Signals 1941, p.o.w. 1941-5; asst master Summer Fields Oxford 1939 and 1945-56, asst HM 1956-60, HM 1960-76, Governor 1975-80; FRSA 1969; Confraternity of St Gregory, Downside Abbey, 1977; author of poems in numerous WW2 anthologies; d. 2 Apr. 2002.

SAVAGE, JOHN, son of William Savage, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1687; left 1690; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Feb 1691; 3rd in “ordo” 1694/5; BA 1694/5; MA 1698 (incorp. Oxford 24 May 1705); migr. to Christ Church, Oxford; BD and DD 24 Jun 1707 (incorp. Cambridge 1730); ordained; Rector of Bigrave, Herts., 31 Jan 1700/1 –1708; Rector of Clothall, Herts., from 30 Sep 1708; travelling tutor on European continent with James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury c. 1705 – c. 1710 (?), and subsequently in France and Italy at intervals to 1716; JP Hertfordshire (occurs 1728-46); Lecturer, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London 31 Mar 1732; a “very jolly convivial priest” and much devoted to his old school; wrote the first volume of A Compleat History of Germany, published 1702, and author of a number of translations and other works; d. 24 Mar 1746/7, from the effects of a fall from the stairs of the scaffold erected for the trial of Lord Lovat in Westminster Hall. Tablet to his memory erected in the East Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, by the King’s Scholars 1750, now in Dark Cloister. DNB. [Probably John Savage, son of William Savage and Anne ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 9 Oct 1672 (IGI)].

SAUNDERS, THOMAS, brother of John Saunders (qv); bapt. 11 Jan 1630/1; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, aged 18, but was never adm. as Westminster Student; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 30 Apr 1652, called to bar 9 Jun 1659; of Beechwood, Herts.; m. 11 Dec 1662 Ellen, dau. of Robert Sadleir, Sopwell, Herts.; buried Flamstead, Herts., 6 Jul 1693.

Saunders, Thomas David Clement, son of Wilfrid Saunders, Indian Educational Service, of Esher, Surrey, and Mary Dorothy, sister of Stuart Douglas Graham (qv); b. 14 Oct. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (A); left Dec. 1941; 2nd Lieut. RE Mar. 1944, wounded 1944; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1949, MA 1956; a schoolmaster; m. 10 Sept. 1949 Angela Forbes, d. of Roy Forbes Irving MICE of Bournemouth, Dorset; d. 2002.