Reverend James Henry Savory (1855-1903) was an English clergyman, a Double Blue at Oxford University, a first-class cricketer, and an FA Cup finalist in football.
Baptised at Binfield on 15 April 1855, only son of the Reverend Edmund Savory (1825-1912) and his wife Diana Maria Randall, he was educated at Winchester College and from 1874 at Trinity College, Oxford, gaining a MA in 1885.
Picked for the University team, he played in the Varsity Match against Cambridge in 1877 and 1878.
[6] On 25 February 1886 at Thornton, Buckinghamshire, he married Amy (1859-1929),[7] second daughter of the Reverend Herbert Richard Peel and his wife Georgiana Maria, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Baker.
His wife's older sister, Alice, married Arthur Howard Heath.