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Frederick Walter Savage VD (28 July 1847 – 19 August 1930) was a British

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who founded

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in 1884.

The son of John Savage and Mary Ann Baldwin, he was born in

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in 1847, and qualified as a Licentiate of the

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. He became Head of Junior School at University School,

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, before leaving to found

at Corsica Hall, Seaford,

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in 1884, where he served as inaugural Headmaster until 1920. The College would later relocate to Lavington Park,

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, in 1946, but retain its original name. He was commissioned as a

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in the 1st Sussex Engineer Volunteer Corps in 1891 and formed an affiliated Cadet Corps at Seaford College in the same year. In July 1895, he was promoted to

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in command of the 1st Sussex Engineer Volunteers. He was a recipient of the

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, and was a member of the

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.Bulletin de la Société de géographie, 1879 He died in

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in 1930.

Publications

*''Memory book of the French grammar'' (1878) *''French exercises, based on the Memory work of the French grammar'' (1878)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Savage, Frederick Walter 1847 births 1930 deaths Founders of English schools and colleges Heads of schools in England People from Southwark