See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• RICHARD SAVAGE (d. 1743)

SAVAGE (d. 1743)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born about 1697, probably of humble parentage . A romantic See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his origin and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• LIFE

life, for which he at any See also:

• RATE

rate supplied the material, appeared in Cut-11's Poetical See also:

• REGISTER

Register in 1719 . On this and other See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information provided by See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

Savage, See also:

• SAMUEL

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

object of an See also:

• INTEREST

interest which would be hardly justified by his writings . In 1698 See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles Gerrard, 2nd See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• MACCLESFIELD
• MACCLESFIELD, CHARLES GERARD, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1618-1694)

Macclesfield, obtained a See also:

• DIVORCE

divorce from his wife, See also:

• ANNA
• ANNA (Hindustani ana)
• ANNA, BALDASARRE

Anna, daughter of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

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 (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

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 (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady Macclesfield had two See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children by Richard Savage, 4th earl See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

Rivers, the second of whom was born at . See also:

• FOX
• FOX, C
• FOX, CHARLES JAMES (1749-1806)
• FOX, EDWARD (c. 1496-1538)
• FOX, GEORGE (1624-1691)
• FOX, RICHARD (c. 1448-1528)
• FOX, ROBERT WERE (1789—1877)
• FOX, SIR STEPHEN (1627–1716)
• FOX, SIR WILLIAM (1812-1893)

Fox See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court, See also:

• HOLBORN

Holborn, on the 16th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1697, and christened two days later at St See also:

• ANDREWS, JAMES PETTIT (c. 1737–1797)
• ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813–1885)

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
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child was placed with See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne See also:

• PORTLOCK, JOSEPH ELLISON (1794–1864)

Portlock in Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

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, EDWARD (1845— )
• LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627–1717)
• LLOYD, WILLIAM WATKISS (1813–1893)

Lloyd . He said he had been pursued by the relentless hostility of his See also:

• MOTHER

mother, Mrs Brett, whohad prevented See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Rivers from leaving £6000 to him and had tried to have him kidnapped for the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Indies . His statements are not corroborated by the depositions of the witnesses in the Macclesfield divorce See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, and Mrs Brett always maintained that he was an impostor .

He was wrong in the date of his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

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 (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence that she provided for her illegitimate children . Discrepancies in Savage's See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story made See also:

• BOSWELL, JAMES (1740-1795)

Boswell suspicious, but the See also:

• MATTER

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 (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, vol. vi., 1858) . Savage, impostor or not, blackmailed Mrs Brett and her See also:

• FAMILY

family with some success, for after the publication of The See also:

• BASTARD (O. Fr. bastard, mod. bdtard = fits de bast, "pack-saddle child," from bast, saddle)

Bastard (1728) her See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew, See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Brownlow, See also:

• VISCOUNT (through O. Fr. viscomte, mod. vicomte, from Low Lat. vice-comes, cf. Portug. visconde, Ital. visconte)

Viscount Tyrconnel, See also:

• PURCHASED

purchased his silence by taking him into his See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house and allowing him a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension of £200 a See also:

• YEAR

year . Savage's first certain See also:

• WORK

work was a poem satirizing See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop See also:

• HOADLY, BENJAMIN (1676-1761)

Hoadly, entitled The See also:

• CONVOCATION
• CONVOCATION (Lat. convocatio, a calling together)

Convocation, or The See also:

• BATTLE

Battle of See also:

• PAMPHLETS

Pamphlets 0717), which he afterwards tried to suppress . He adapted from the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish a See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, Love in a See also:

• VEIL (O.Fr. veile, mod. voile, from Lat. velum, cloth, awning, sail)

Veil (acted 1718, printed 1719), which gained him the friendship of Sir Richard See also:

• STEELE
• STEELE, ANNE (1717-1778)
• STEELE, SIR RICHARD (1672-1729)
• STEELE, THOMAS (1788-1848)
• STEELE, WILLIAM (d. 1680)

Steele and of See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert Wilks . With Steele, how-ever, he soon quarrelled . In 1723 he played without success in the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title role of his tragedy, Sir Thomas See also:

• OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS (1581-1613)

Overbury (pr . 1724), and his See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

Miscellaneous Poems were published by subscription in 1726 . In 1727 he was arrested for the See also:

• MURDER

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
• SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN, BART

Sinclair in a drunken See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel, and only escaped the See also:

• DEATH

death See also:

• PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty by the intercession of Frances, countess of See also:

• HERTFORD
• HERTFORD, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

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

scandal about his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-scribblers . Proud as he was, he was servile enough to See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope with See also:

• PETTY, SIR WILLIAM (1623-1687)

petty See also:

• GOSSIP (from the O.E. godsibb, i.e. God, and sib, akin, standing in relation to)

gossip about the authors attacked in the Dunciad . His most considerable poem, The Wanderer (1729), shows the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• THOMSON, JAMES (1822-1892)
• THOMSON, JAMES (1834-1882)
• THOMSON, JAMES (r700-1748)
• THOMSON, JOHN (1778-184o)
• THOMSON, JOSEPH (1858-1895)
• THOMSON, SIR CHARLES WYVILLE (1830-1882)
• THOMSON, THOMAS (1773-1852)
• THOMSON, WILLIAM (1819-189o)

Thomson's Seasons, See also:

• PART

part of which had already appeared . Savage tried without success to obtain patronage from See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole, and hoped in vain to be made poet-See also:

• LAUREATE (Lat. laureatus, from laurea, the laurel tree)

laureate . Johnson states that he received a small income from Mrs See also:

• OLDFIELD, ANNE (1683–173o)

Oldfield, but this seems to be fiction . In 1732 See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• CAROLINE
• CAROLINE (1683-1737)

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 (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute poverty . Pope had been the most faithful of his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, and had made him a small See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance . With others he now raised See also:

• MONEY

money to send him out of reach of his creditors . Savage went to See also:

• SWANSEA

Swansea, but he resented bitterly the conditions imposed by his patrons, and removed to See also:

• BRISTOL
• BRISTOL, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• BRISTOL, GEORGE DIGBY, 2ND EARL OF1 (1612-1677)
• BRISTOL, JOHN DIGBY, 1ST EARL OF 6 (1580-1653)

Bristol, where he was imprisoned for See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

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 (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison on the 1st of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

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, WILLIAM (1715-1785)

Whitehead, illustrated by John See also:

• LEECH
• LEECH, JOHN (1817-1864)

Leech . Rickard Savage, a See also:

• PLAY

play in four acts by J . M . See also:

• BARRIE
• BARRIE, JAMES MATTHEW (186o- )

Barrie and H . B . Marriott-See also:

• WATSON, RICHARD (1737-1816)
• WATSON, THOMAS (c. 1557–1592)
• WATSON, WILLIAM (1858- )
• WATSON, WILLIAM (c. 1559-1603)

Watson, was presented at an afternoon performance at the Criterion See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, See also:

• LONDON

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 (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

Mystery in See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

Biography (1909) .