Bourchier Wrey Savile


Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile was a Church of England clergyman and theological writer.

Origins

He was born on 11 March 1817, the second son of Albany Savile, a Member of Parliament for Okehampton in Devon, by his wife Eleanora Elizabeth Wrey, a daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Baronet, of Tawstock Court in North Devon.

Career

He was admitted to Westminster School on 23 January 1828, and was elected a King's Scholar there in 1831. He became a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1835, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1839 and Master of Arts in 1842.
He was curate successively of Christ Church, Halesowen, Worcestershire, in 1840, of Okehampton, Devonshire, in 1841, and of Newport, Devonshire, in 1848; chaplain to Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue of Castle Hill, Filleigh in North Devon, 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 St. George, Devonshire.

Marriage and children

In April 1842 he married Mary Elizabeth Whyte, a daughter of James Whyte of Pilton House, North Devon, an Irish gentleman who purchased Pilton House in 1806 from Robert Newton Incledon. By his wife he had issue four sons and five daughters, including:
He died at Shillingford Rectory on 14 April 1888, and was buried on 19 April.

Publications

Savile was a contributor to the Transactions of the Victoria Institute and to the Journal of Sacred Literature, and the author of upwards of forty volumes. His works, chiefly theological and in tone evangelical, display much learning. His volume on Anglo-Israelism and the Great Pyramid exposes the fallacies of the belief in the Jewish origin of the English people.
Among his other publications were: