Borradaile Savory
English clergyman and baronet (1855–1906)
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Sir Borradaile Savory, 2nd Baronet (5 October 1855 – 12 September 1906) was an English clergyman and baronet.
Savory was born in Charterhouse Square, London, the only child of Sir William Scovell Savory Bt FRS FRCP, Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, and his wife Louisa Frances Borradaile.[1][2]
He was educated at University College School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1875, graduating B.A. 1879 (M.A. 1882). He was ordained deacon in 1880, and priest in 1881.[1]
He held the following positions in the church:[1]
- Curate of St George's, Hanover Square, London, 1880–4
- Clerk-in-Ordinary, 1884–7
- Rector of St Bartholomew-the-Great, 1887–1906
- Chaplain of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1890–1906
- Senior Grand Chaplain of English Freemasons, 1901[3]
He was also Honorary Chaplain of the Royal Army Medical Corps,[4] and President of Sion College in 1905.[5]
He succeeded his father in the Savory baronetcy as the 2nd baronet in 1895.[1][2]
He lived latterly at The Woodlands, Hollybush Hill, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, where he died on 12 September 1906.[1]
Family
On 8 July 1881, Savory married Florence Julia Pavy, daughter of the physician Frederick William Pavy FRS.[1] Their son William Borradaile Savory (1882–1961) succeeded him as the 3rd baronet.