William Saywell

William Saywell (1643–1701) was an English churchman and academic, known as a controversialist, archdeacon of Ely, and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Life He was son of Gabriel Saywell (died 1688), rector of Pentridge, Dorset. After a few months passed at Cranbourne school, he went in 1659 to St John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a sizar. He graduated A.B. in 1663, A.M. 1667. On 2 April 1666 he was elected a fellow of his college. In 1669 he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford.

In 1679 Saywell proceeded D.D., and on 8 March in the same year was installed a prebendary of Ely Cathedral. On 9 December that year, on the promotion of Humphrey Gower to the mastership of St. John's College, he was elected his successor as master of Jesus College. The Reformation of the Church of England justified, according to the Canons of the Council of Nice and other General Councils, Cambridge, 1688. Without author's name. The Necessity of adhering to the Church of England as by Law established; or, the Duty of a good Christian, and particularly of Parents and Masters of Families under the present Toleration, Cambridge, 1692.

Saywell also contributed Latin verse to Hymenæus Cantabrigiensis in 1683 and to Academiæ Cantabrigiensis Affectus in 1685.