Frederick Savage

Frederick Savage

Corsica Hall

Colonel Frederick Walter Savage VD (28 July 1847–19 August 1930) was a British educationist who founded Seaford College in 1884.^[1]

Born in Middlesex in 1847, he 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.^[2] The College would later relocate to Lavington Park, Petworth in 1946, but retain its original name.^[3] A Colonel in the 1st Sussex Engineer Volunteers he was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration. He was a member of the Société de géographie.^[4] 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.

References

1. The Schoolmasters' Yearbook & Educational Directory: Reference Book of Secondary and University Education in England and Wales, 1916
2. "When free time meant digging trenches". Sussex Express. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
3. Joscelyn, Johnson. The Story of Seaford College - A Mosaic of Memories.
4. Bulletin de la Société de géographie, 1879