Leopold Halliday Savile

{{Short description|Scottish civil engineer}}

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|name = Sir Leopold Savile

|birth_name = Leopold Halliday Savile

|nationality = British

|birth_date = 31 August 1870

|birth_place = Bridge of Earn, Perthshire

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|death_place = London, England

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|discipline = Civil

|institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers (president), Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers (president)

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Sir Leopold Halliday Savile, KCB (31 August 1870 – 28 January 1953) was a Scottish civil engineer.{{cite book | last = Watson | first = Garth | title = The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers | publisher = Thomas Telford Ltd | year = 1989 | pages = 170 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ybXHDw8u_VcC | isbn = 0-7277-1526-7}}{{cite book | last = Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval | title = Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal | publisher = Genealogical Publishing Company | year = 1994 | pages = 132 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0aUD4NqGYqAC | isbn = 0-8063-1433-8}}

Savile was born at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire,[http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads/Presidents%20address%20from%20CE%20with%20Appendices(2).pdf Gordon Masterton's ICE presidential address] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923042309/http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads/Presidents%20address%20from%20CE%20with%20Appendices%282%29.pdf |date=2006-09-23 }} the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Walter Savile and Sarah Emma Stoddart. He was a great-grandson of the MP Christopher Atkinson (later Savile). He was educated at Marlborough College and King's College London. He was a pupil of Sir John Wolfe Barry and Henry Marc Brunel from 1891 to 1896.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Leopold Savile |work=The Times|date= 29 January 1953|page=10 }}

In 1931, Savile was elected a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers and was their president in 1948. Savile was appointed to the panel of qualified civil engineers required by the Reservoirs Act of 1930 where he was responsible for the design, construction and inspection of reservoirs.{{London Gazette|issue=33890|page=7828|date=9 December 1932}} At this time he was working for Alexander Gibb and partners. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between November 1940 and November 1941.{{cite book | last = Watson | first = Garth | title = The Civils | publisher = Thomas Telford | year = 1988 | pages = 253 | isbn = 0-7277-0392-7}}

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 1 January 1925.{{London Gazette|issue=33007|supp=y|page=2|date=30 December 1925}} He was appointed a Knight Commander of the same order on 1 March 1929.{{London Gazette|issue=33472|supp=y|page=1437|date=26 February 1929}}

In 1904, Savile married Evelyn Stileman, daughter of Frank Stileman, consulting engineer to the Furness Railway Company. They had one daughter. After her death in 1920, he married secondly, in 1929, Lilith Savile (who was his first cousin once removed), daughter of Brigadier-General Walter Clare Savile.

He died in 1953.