Edwin Sidney Savage

Edwin Sidney Savage (28 February 1862 — 26 October 1947) was a British priest in the Church of England and an author. Born in Port Elizabeth South Africa, Savage was educated at New College, Eastbourne, University College London and Magdalen College, Oxford. Savage married Jane McEwan, who died on 23 November 1886 following the birth of their only child, Ronald McEwan Hill Savage. 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). Savage was the Rector of Hexham from 1898 to 1919, during which time he oversaw the abbey's rebuilding.