Major-General Sir John Boscawen Savage KCB, KCH (23 February 1760 – 8 March 1843) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.

Savage was commissioned into the Royal Marines in January 1777.

[1] He first saw action at the Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1779 but fought again at the action of 8 January 1780 off Cape Finisterre and at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent later in the month during the Anglo-Spanish War.

[1] He became colonel commandant of the Chatham division in June 1825 and Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in March 1831[2] remaining in that post until shortly before he was promoted to major-general in January 1837.

[3] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 25 October 1839.