Background
Savile, second son of Albany Savile, Member of Parliament for Okehampton, who died in 1831, by Eleanora Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Baronet, was born on 11 March 1817.
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Bourchier Savile
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He became a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1835, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1839 and Master of Arts
Career
He was admitted to Westminster School on 23 January 1828, and was elected a king"s scholar there in 1831. in 1842. He was successively curate of Christ Church, Halesowen, Worcestershire, in 1840, of Okehampton, Devonshire, in 1841, and of Newport, Devonshire, in 1848. Chaplain to Earl Fortescue from 1844.
Rector of West Buckland, Devonshire, in 1852.
Then curate of Tawstock, Devonshire, in 1855, of Tattingstone, Suffolk, in 1860, of Dawlish, Devonshire, in 1867, of Combeinteignhead, Devonshire, in 1870, and of Launcells, Cornwall, in 1871. From 1872 to his death he was rector of Dunchideock with Shillingford Saint George, Devonshire.
He died at Shillingford rectory on 14 April 1888, and was buried on 19 April.
