Frederick Charles Savage (1907-1979) was born in Evesham on 11th April 1907, the elder of two children of Charles Savage, a bricklayer, and his wife, Emily. Frederick enrolled at Badsey Council School in September 1913 when the family moved from Evesham. He left school on 31st March 1921 aged almost 14. He married Nora Dorothy Cole in 1929. Frederick died in 1979.