Arthur Savile

Arthur Savile (20 December 1819 – 23 April 1870) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and other amateur teams between 1839 and 1841. He was born at Methley in Yorkshire and died at Fowlmere in Cambridgeshire.

Savile was the sixth son of John Savile, 3rd Earl of Mexborough, and of his wife Anne, who was the daughter of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke. Throughout his life, he was styled as "The Honourable Arthur Savile". He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

As a cricketer, Savile was a middle-order batsman, and he appears not to have bowled, though he played one first-class match for a team called the "Fast Bowlers" in 1841 and in any case records from his time as a cricketer are incomplete. He played three times from 1836 to 1838 for Eton in the annual Eton v Harrow cricket match before going to Cambridge University in 1839. His death was reported as being sudden: "after a few hours' illness, of acute inflammation of the windpipe".