The Savage Club, founded in 1857, is a gentlemen's club in London, named after the poet, Richard Savage. Members are drawn from the fields of art, drama, law, literature, music or science.
George Augustus Sala (ca. 1860) sent out the invitation letters to the founding meeting of the club in 1857.
Richard Savage, poet (c 1697 -1743)
Menu card for the Savage Club's 40th anniversary dinner in 1897
Menu card for a dinner in honour of the inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, in 1903
Richard Savage was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, originally published anonymously in 1744, which is based on one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.
Illustration from Richard Savage: A Romance of Real Life by Charles Whitehead
Title page of Life of Mr Richard Savage
Plaque on the wall of the old site of Bristol Newgate Prison