Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage

Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage, 2nd Baronet ( 1586 – 20 November 1635), was an English peer and courtier in the reign of Charles I.

Early life Savage was the eldest son of Sir John Savage (1554 – 1615), 1st Baronet, of Rocksavage in Cheshire and Mary (d. 1635), daughter of Richard Allington. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet 7 July 1615. Charles Savage (c. 1622– ), married and had a daughter: Mary Savage, married Jeremy Thoresby, son of John Thoresby of Leeds and younger brother of the antiquarian, Ralph Thoresby. Jane Savage (1607 – 15 April 1631), married after 18 December 1622, as his first wife, John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester. Dorothy Savage (c. 1611 – 6 December 1691), married 10 April 1637, Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire. Elizabeth Savage (c. 1612– ), married Sir John Thimbleby (1603 – 1661), of Irnham, Lincolnshire. Anne Savage (1617 – 16 June 1696), married in 1661, as his second wife, Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan. Catherine Savage, a nun at Dunkirk. Henrietta Maria Savage (c. 1621 – 1663), married, in 1645, Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley, Worcestershire.

Death and succession By special remainder, Savage was made heir to his father-in-law's titles, but did not live to inherit them. He died 20 November of "the running gout" at his home on Tower Hill in London and was buried 16 December 1635 in the Savage family chapel in Macclesfield, Cheshire. He was buried on the same day as his mother; only ten of his nineteen children were still living at the time of his death. His eldest son, John, succeeded him as 2nd Viscount Savage, later becoming 2nd Earl Rivers on the death of his maternal grandfather in 1640. His widow was created, on 21 April 1641, Countess Rivers for life, fourteen months after her father's death. She died 9 March 1651 and was buried at St. Osyth's, Essex.