[1] Born on 14 April 1915 he was educated at Reading School and St Catherine's College, Oxford and ordained in 1940.
[4] In 1970, Gordon Savage resigned as Bishop due to ill-health and took up light pastoral duties as chaplain to the Anglican Church in Puerto Cruz, Tenerife.
[6] When it became known that his housekeeper was a friend and a former dancer, whom he had met at the Eve Club in London in 1964,[5] articles in the national press started to appear drawing attention to this.
[6][7][8][9][10] On account of such controversial publicity, Savage flew back to London for talks with the Archbishop of Canterbury,[11][12][13] and it was agreed that he would resign from his new post and relinquish all further pastoral duties.
[14][15][16] Gordon Savage was ‘a fluent and intelligent speaker, young in outlook and interested in inter-Church relations’.