Marmion Savage
Marmion Wilme Savage (1803–1872), also known as Marmion Wilard Savage, was an Irish novelist and journalist.
Life
He was son of the Rev. Henry Savage. He matriculated as a pensioner on 6 October 1817 at
Savage was in 1856 appointed editor of
Works
His first novel The Falcon Family, or Young Ireland, appeared in 1845, at the moment when the physical force party were just beginning to secede from the Repeal Association. It was a caustic attack on the seceders. His second work, The Bachelor of the Albany, which was published in 1847, proved to be his best known. In 1849 Savage brought out a three-volume novel, called My Uncle the Curate, and in 1852 another entitled Reuben Medlicott, or the Coming Man. His fifth story was a novelette, called Clover Cottage, or I can't get in, which, dramatised by Tom Taylor under the title of Nine Points of the Law, as a comedietta in one act, was first performed at the Olympic on 11 April 1859, with Mrs. Stirling and Addison in the two chief parts.
In 1855 he edited, in two volumes with notes and a preface,
Family
He was twice married. By his first wife, Olivia, daughter of
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Savage, Marmion W.". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.