Person:Richard Savage (17)

Disputed Lineages

There was much dispute whether Richard Savage, the playwright, was a child of the parents given here or an imposter. The Wikipedia article below gives some details.

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Richard Savage may refer to:

• Richard Savage (poet) (c. 1697–1743), English poet
• Richard Savage (cricketer) (born 1955), English cricketer
• Richard Akinwande Savage (1874–1935), physician, journalist and politician in Lagos, Nigeria
• Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage (1903–1993), physician, soldier, and first person of West African heritage to receive a British Army commission
• Richard Henry Savage (1846–1903), American military officer and author
• Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (c. 1654–1712)
• Rick Savage (born 1960), bassist with Def Leppard
• Richard Savage (1842), a novel by Charles Whitehead

1. ↑ Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
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2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Richard Savage, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.