Frederick Savage

Colonel Frederick Walter Savage VD (28 July 1847–19 August 1930) was a British educationist who founded Seaford College in 1884.

The son of John Savage and Mary Ann Baldwin, he was born in Middlesex in 1847, and qualified as a Licentiate of the College of Preceptors. He became Head of Junior School at University School, Hastings, before leaving to found Seaford College at Corsica Hall, Seaford, East Sussex, in 1884, where he served as inaugural Headmaster until 1920. The College would later relocate to Lavington Park, Petworth, in 1946, but retain its original name. A commanding officer in the 1st Sussex Engineer Volunteers, in 1891 he formed an affiliated Cadet Corps at Seaford College. He was a recipient of the Volunteer Officers' Decoration and a member of the Société de Géographie. He died in Cranleigh, Surrey, on 19 August 1930.

Publications

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