Henry Savile (died 1569)

Henry Savile (1517/18–1569) was an English politician, and Surveyor of the Crown for the Northern Provinces.

He was a member (MP) of the parliament of England for Grantham in 1558 and for Yorkshire in 1559.T.M. Hofmann, 'Savile, Henry (1517/18-69), of London, Barrowby, Lincs. and Lupset, Yorks.', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1982), History of Parliament Online.

His will and issue are printed in full in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.J.W. Clay, 'The Savile family', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal XXV (1920), pp. 1-47, at pp. 16-22. By his second wife Joan Vernon, he was the father of Sir George Savile, 1st Baronet of Thornhill.

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