Edmund Savory, the fourth man to be admitted as a Fellow of Radley, was a B.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, who took Holy Orders in 1851. He left Radley in 1852 and later served as Rector of Binfield, Berkshire, from 1859-1903, during which time he was Rural Dean of Maidenhead, 1881-1902, and appointed an Honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 1881-1912. He died in 1912.
It was Edmund Savory (accompanied by Edward Howard) who first took the boys rowing on the river.
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