He married secondly, in 1889, Sibil Farrar, daughter of Frederic Farrar, Dean of Canterbury (1895-1903). They had a son (Lieutenant Cuthbert Savage, killed in action during World War I) and four daughters (Enid, Audrey, Rosella and Elflida).
Born in Surrey to a family of Cheshire descent, Savage was educated at New College, Eastbourne, University College London and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Savage was the Rector of Hexham from 1898 to 1919, during which time he oversaw the abbey"s rebuilding. After serving with 21 ships during the First World War as Chief Commissioner of Young Men’s Christian Association in the Mediterranean, Savage was decorated with the Serbian Red Cross Order for services in relief of its civilian population. He also received the Order of Street Sava as well as the honorary military rank of major from King Peter I of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
He also served on the International Commission to report on the Bulgarian Atrocities.
On the evening of 26 October 1947, Savage was found dead in a smoke-filled room after raising the alarm for a fire in his sitting room at 18 London Road in Bexhill, a town he had been associated with for the previous 20 years. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death but his cause of death remains in doubt as there was no evidence of burning.
Constructor of the Abbey Institute in Gilesgate Hexham, now home to the Hexham Community Centre Restorator and conservator of the Church of Street Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, during his term as rector (1929–1944) Honorary chaplain to the Worshipful Companies of Butchers and Makers of Playing Cards Honorary canon of Newcastle Cathedral.
