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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.