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See also:SAVAGE, See also:RICHARD (d. 1743) , See also:English poet, was See also:born about 1697, probably of humble parentage. A romantic See also:account of his origin and See also:early See also:life, for which he at any See also:rate supplied the material, appeared in Cut-11's Poetical See also:Register in 1719. On this and other See also:information provided by Savage, See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson founded his Life of Savage, one of the most elaborate of the Lives. It was printed anonymously in 1744, and has made the poet the See also:object of an See also:interest which would be hardly justified by his writings. In 1698 See also:Charles Gerrard, 2nd See also:earl of See also:Macclesfield, obtained a See also:divorce from his wife, See also:Anna, daughter of See also:Sir Richard See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason, who shortly afterwards married See also:Colonel See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Brett. See also:Lady Macclesfield had two See also:children by Richard Savage, 4th earl See also:Rivers, the second of whom was born at. See also:Fox See also:Court, See also:Holborn, on the 16th of See also:January 1697, and christened two days later at St See also:Andrews, Holborn, as Richard See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith. Six months later the See also:child was placed with See also:Anne See also:Portlock in Covent See also:Garden; nothing more is positively known of him. In 1718 Richard Savage claimed to be this child. He stated that he had been cared for by Lady Mason, his grandmother, who had put him to school near St Albans, and by his godmother, Mrs See also:Lloyd. He said he had been pursued by the relentless hostility of his See also:mother, Mrs Brett, whohad prevented See also:Lord Rivers from leaving £6000 to him and had tried to have him kidnapped for the See also:West Indies. His statements are not corroborated by the depositions of the witnesses in the Macclesfield divorce See also:case, and Mrs Brett always maintained that he was an impostor. He was wrong in the date of his See also:birth; moreover, the godmother of Lady Macclesfield's son was Dorothea Ousley (afterwards Mrs Delgardno), not Mrs Lloyd. There is nothing to show that Mrs Brett was the cruel and vindictive woman he describes her to be, but abundant See also:evidence that she provided for her illegitimate children. Discrepancies in Savage's See also:story made See also:Boswell suspicious, but the See also:matter was thoroughly investigated for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time by W. Moy See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, who published the results of his researches in Notes and Queries (second See also:series, vol. vi., 1858). Savage, impostor or not, blackmailed Mrs Brett and her See also:family with some success, for after the publication of The See also:Bastard (1728) her See also:nephew, See also:John Brownlow, See also:Viscount Tyrconnel, See also:purchased his silence by taking him into his See also:house and allowing him a See also:pension of £200 a See also:year. Savage's first certain See also:work was a poem satirizing See also:Bishop See also:Hoadly, entitled The See also:Convocation, or The See also:Battle of See also:Pamphlets 0717), which he afterwards tried to suppress. He adapted from the See also:Spanish a See also:comedy, Love in a See also:Veil (acted 1718, printed 1719), which gained him the friendship of Sir Richard See also:Steele and of See also:Robert Wilks. With Steele, how-ever, he soon quarrelled. In 1723 he played without success in the See also:title role of his tragedy, Sir Thomas See also:Overbury (pr. 1724), and his See also:Miscellaneous Poems were published by subscription in 1726. In 1727 he was arrested for the See also:murder of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Sinclair in a drunken See also:quarrel, and only escaped the See also:death See also:penalty by the intercession of Frances, countess of See also:Hertford (d. 1754).
Savage was at his best as a satirist, and in The Author to be Let he published a quantity of See also:scandal about his See also:fellow-scribblers. Proud as he was, he was servile enough to See also:supply See also:Pope with See also:petty See also:gossip about the authors attacked in the Dunciad. His most considerable poem, The Wanderer (1729), shows the See also:influence of See also:Thomson's Seasons, See also:part of which had already appeared. Savage tried without success to obtain patronage from See also:Walpole, and hoped in vain to be made poet-See also:laureate. Johnson states that he received a small income from Mrs See also:Oldfield, but this seems to be fiction. In 1732 See also:Queen See also:Caroline settled on him a pension of £5c a year. Meanwhile he had quarrelled with Lord Tyrconnel, and at the queen's death was reduced to See also:absolute poverty. Pope had been the most faithful of his See also:friends, and had made him a small See also:regular See also:allowance. With others he now raised See also:money to send him out of reach of his creditors. Savage went to See also:Swansea, but he resented bitterly the conditions imposed by his patrons, and removed to See also:Bristol, where he was imprisoned for See also:debt. All his friends had ceased to help him except Pope, and in 1743 he, too, wrote to break off the connexion. Savage died in See also:prison on the 1st of See also:August 1743.
See Johnson's Life of Savage, and Notes and Queries as already quoted. He is the subject of a novel, Richard Savage (1842), by Charles See also:Whitehead, illustrated by John See also:Leech. Rickard Savage, a See also:play in four acts by J. M. See also:Barrie and H. B. Marriott-See also:Watson, was presented at an afternoon performance at the Criterion See also:theatre, See also:London, in 1891. The dramatists took considerable liberties with the facts of Savage's career. See also S. V. Makower, Richard Savage, a See also:Mystery in See also:Biography (1909).
End of Article: SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)
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