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in 1786, describes Savage as "a very jolly convivial priest". Savage was much devoted to his old school, Westminster. A white marble tablet, with Latin inscription, erected in 1750 in the east cloisters by the King's Scholars at their expense, attested his popularity there. The Earl of Salisbury also
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says that Savage was "a stately man, rather corpulent"; and Bishop Newton calls him "a lively, pleasant, facetious old man". He belonged to a celebrated social club founded at
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Savage died at Clothall on 24 March 1747, from the consequences of a fall down the stairs of the scaffolding erected for
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in the same county, which he held till his death. On 31 March 1732 he also became lecturer at
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commemorated Savage's name by an inscription on the first foundation-stone of
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century
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A Compleat History of Germany … from its Origin to this Time
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in 1687. Thence he was admitted on 13 February 1691 to
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Savage published in 1701 an abridgment, in 2 volumes,
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Memoirs of the Transactions in Savoy during this War
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Church of England clergyman and scholar (1673–1747)
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Index

The Reverend

Michael Vandergucht
Thomas Forster
Hertfordshire
Clothall
Anglican
Alma mater
Emmanuel College, Cantab.
Christ Church, Oxon.
John Savage's coat of arms
Hertfordshire
King's Scholar
Westminster School
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
B.A.
M.A.
B.D.
D.D.
Christ Church, Oxford
James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury
Bigrave
Clothall
St. George's, Hanover Square
Cole
Royston
Restoration
Sir John Hynde Cotton
Gough
Peckwater Quadrangle

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