Henry Savile of Banke

Henry Savile of Banke (1568 – 29 April 1617) was an English manuscript and book collector. He was the son of Henry Savile of Blaithroyd, in Southowram, Halifax and a distant relative of Sir Henry Savile (1549–1622). He was admitted to Merton College and St Alban Hall, Oxford, becoming BA in 1592 and MA in 1595. He was licensed to practice physic in 1601. Savile's collection is directly linked to the survival of medieval manuscripts from the north of England after the destruction of monasteries in the sixteenth century.