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Savery

Savery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Henry Savery (1791–1842), Australian novelist
  • Jan Savery (1589–1654), Flemish painter
  • Joe Savery (born 1985), baseball pitcher
  • Nigel Savery (21st century), geneticist
  • Roelant Savery (1576–1639), Flanders-born Dutch baroque painter
  • Thomas Savery (circa 1650–1715), English inventor
  • Uffe Savery (born 1966), Danish percussionist

Usage examples of "savery".

Two people, above all, made it possible to build suitable machinery: Dennis Papin and Thomas Savery.

Among those present that day was that same William Savery, who, in the last story, had a bundle of valuable hides stolen from his tanyard, and punished the thief, when he came to return the hides, by loading him with kindness and giving him a good situation.