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SAVIGNAC, JACOB, son of Jacob Savignac, Westminster, wine merchant, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 25 Jan 1712 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Apr 1722; BB 1726-9; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 23 Oct 1729, matr. 1729; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 22 Sep 1734, priest (Rochester) 5 Jun 1737; Curate, St. Neot’s, Hunts.; Rector of Snelland, Leics. [check], from 14 May 1743; m. 10 Nov 1743 Mary Bowker; buried St. Swithin’s, Lincoln 25 May 1747.

SAVAGE, SIR WILLIAM, son of William Savage, Bloxworth, Dorset, and Grace ---; b. 14 May 1687; adm.; QS 1702; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1704, aged 17, scholar 2 May 1705, matr. 1704; adm. Middle Temple 8 Feb 1705/6, called to bar 11 May 1711; Solicitor-Gen., Barbados 1714; knighted 21 Mar 1721; m. Thomazin, widow of Wardell Andrews, Barbados, and dau. of Col. Thomas Thornhill; d. Nov 1721.

SAVAGE, THOMAS, VISCOUNT COLCHESTER, son of Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers, and his first wife Elizabeth, natural dau. of Emanuel Scrope, Earl of Sunderland; b.; at school 1660 (Busby’s Account Book); m. [before 17 Feb 1668/9 ?] Lady Charlotte Maria Stanley, elder dau . of Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby; d. c. 1680.

SAVAGE, THOMAS, second son of William Savage, Sheffield, Yorks .; bapt. St. Peter’s, Sheffield, Yorks., 26 Jul 1716 (IGI); adm. (aged 16) Mar 1733/4; left 1734; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Oct 1734; BA 1738/9; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 24 Sep 1738, priest (Chester) 21 Sep 1740; Curate, Welby, Lincs. 1738, South Kirkby, Yorks., 11 Nov 1740; Vicar of Owston, Yorks., 28 Sep 1744-82.

SAVAGE, THOMAS BYRCHE, son of William Byrche (qv); b.; assumed surname of Savage; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1742; left 1749; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 18 Nov 1749, aged 18, matr. 1749; of Elmley Castle, Worcs.; m. 1766 Dorothy, dau. of Thomas Kynnersley, Loxley, Staffs.; d. 4 Sep 1776.

SAVAGE, SCROOPE, son of John Savage, St. Anne’s, Soho, and Charlotte Fenoulhet, widow; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1731; 1st Lieut., Cornwall’s Marines 22 Jan 1740/1; Capt., 29 Nov 1745; d. unm. at Calais, France 1749, and buried St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London 29 Dec 1749.

SAVAGE, RICHARD, 4TH EARL RIVERS, brother of Thomas Savage, Viscount Colchester (qv); b.; at school in 1660 (Busby’s Account Book); Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 4th Troop, Horse Guards 23 May 1686; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3rd Horse 31 Dec 1688; 3rd Troop, Horse Guards 23 Jan 1692; Major-Gen., 1 Apr 1693; Lieut. -Gen., 27 Apr 1697; General of the Horse 10 Sep 1703; Col., Royal Horse Guards, from 4 Jan 1711/2; the first nobleman to give his allegiance to William III on his landing in this country; served in Ireland and in Flanders; in command of unsuccessful expedition intended to proceed to France summer 1706, to effect a junction with the Camisards; declined to serve in Spain 1707 as second in command to Lord Galway, and returned home; MP Wigan Feb 1680/1 – Mar 1681, Liverpool Jan 1688/9 – 14 Sep 1694; succ. father as 4th Earl Rivers 14 Sep 1694; Lord Lieut., Cheshire 11 May 1695 – 16 Jan 1703, Lancashire 15 Jan – 18 Jun 1703, Essex from 16 Apr 1705; Privy Councillor 25 Nov 1708; Constable of the Tower 1709, also Lord Lieut. Tower Hamlets 5 Feb 1710 – 10 May 1712; Envoy Extraordinart to Elector of Hanover 1710; Master-Gen. of the Ordnance from 10 Jan 1711/2; a handsome, unscrupulous rake, known in his younger days as “Tyburn Dick”; m. 21 Aug 1679 Penelope, dau. of John Downes, Wardley, Lancs.; d. 18 Aug 1712. DNB.

Savage, Patrick Morris Boscawen, son of Lieut.-Col. Morris Boscawen Savage CBE DSO, South Staffs Regt, of Lichfield, and Helen Elise Tovil QARNS, d. of Timothy William Tovell, estate manager; b. 21 Aug. 1916; adm. Jan. 1930 (G); left July 1935; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1939, MA 1945; RMC Sandhurst, 2nd Lieut. South Staffs Regt 1940, Lieut. and Cipher Officer HQ Crete 1940, Capt. attd Roy. Corps of Signals 1941, p.o.w. 1941-5; asst master Summer Fields Oxford 1939 and 1945-56, asst HM 1956-60, HM 1960-76, Governor 1975-80; FRSA 1969; Confraternity of St Gregory, Downside Abbey, 1977; author of poems in numerous WW2 anthologies; d. 2 Apr. 2002.

SAVAGE, JOHN, son of William Savage, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1687; left 1690; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Feb 1691; 3rd in “ordo” 1694/5; BA 1694/5; MA 1698 (incorp. Oxford 24 May 1705); migr. to Christ Church, Oxford; BD and DD 24 Jun 1707 (incorp. Cambridge 1730); ordained; Rector of Bigrave, Herts., 31 Jan 1700/1 –1708; Rector of Clothall, Herts., from 30 Sep 1708; travelling tutor on European continent with James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury c. 1705 – c. 1710 (?), and subsequently in France and Italy at intervals to 1716; JP Hertfordshire (occurs 1728-46); Lecturer, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London 31 Mar 1732; a “very jolly convivial priest” and much devoted to his old school; wrote the first volume of A Compleat History of Germany, published 1702, and author of a number of translations and other works; d. 24 Mar 1746/7, from the effects of a fall from the stairs of the scaffold erected for the trial of Lord Lovat in Westminster Hall. Tablet to his memory erected in the East Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, by the King’s Scholars 1750, now in Dark Cloister. DNB. [Probably John Savage, son of William Savage and Anne ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 9 Oct 1672 (IGI)].