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.

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.

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, 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, JOHN, eldest son of Thomas Saunders, Beechwood, Flamstead, Herts., and Mary, dau. of Robert Brooke, London, merchant; b. 29 Jul 1624; adm.; KS 1637; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1641, matr. 4 Jul 1641, aged 16; adm. Gray’s Inn 13 Jun 1640; buried Flamstead, Herts., 10 Sep 1641.

SAUNDERS, EDWARD GERARD, brother of Francis Napier Saunders (qv); b. 12 Jul 1852; adm. 28 Jun 1865 (G); QS 1867; left Dec 1869; merchant in Brazil and Argentina 1873-95, subsequently at Pittsburgh, USA; d. at Pittsburgh 8 Mar 1932.

SAUNDERS, CHARLES, son of William Saunders, Brentford, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS 1674; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1680, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 17, scholar 22 Apr 1681; author of tragedy Tamerlane the Great, written when at school and published in 1681; it was performed at the Theatre Royal, London, and also at Oxford before Charles II, with an epilogue written by John Dryden (qv).

SATERLEY, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1553-4 (Chapter Muniments).