Bourchier Wrey Savile

Bourchier Wrey Savile (11 March 1817–14 April 1888) was a Church of England clergyman and theological writer.

He was born on 11 March 1817, the second son of Albany Savile (d. 1831), a Member of Parliament for Okehampton in Devon, by his wife Eleanora Elizabeth Wrey, a daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Baronet (1757–1826), of Tawstock Court in North Devon.

In April 1842 he married Mary Elizabeth Whyte, a daughter of James Whyte of Pilton House, North Devon (near Tawstock), an Irish gentleman who purchased Pilton House in 1806 from Robert Newton Incledon (1761-1846).

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 volume on Anglo-Israelism and the Great Pyramid (1880) exposes the fallacies of the belief in the Jewish origin of the English people.

Arms of Savile: Argent, on a bend sable three owls of the field
Stained glass window, St Michael's Church, Dunchideock , Devon, commemorating Bourchier Wrey Savile, Rector 1872-88. Bottom two shield display the arms of the Wrey baronets and Savile