He belonged to a celebrated social club founded at Royston soon after the Restoration, a former member of which, Sir John Hynde Cotton, writing to Gough in 1786, describes Savage as "a very jolly convivial priest".

A white marble tablet, with Latin inscription, erected in 1750 in the east cloisters by the King's Scholars at their expense, attested his popularity there.

The Earl of Salisbury also commemorated Savage's name by an inscription on the first foundation-stone of Peckwater Quadrangle, Christ Church, Oxford, laid by him on 26 January 1705.

[1] Savage died at Clothall on 24 March 1747, from the consequences of a fall down the stairs of the scaffolding erected for Lord Lovat's trial in Westminster Hall.

He wrote the first volume of A Compleat History of Germany … from its Origin to this Time, which appeared in 1702, and superintended the rest of the work, in which the best extant German and Spanish authorities are handled with discrimination.