Official portrait of John Savage as mayof of Belfast

Sir John Savage (1814 - 1883) was the mayor of Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) in 1872.

Born in 1814 in Glenavy, a town in Antrim, he was knighted upon becoming mayor of Belfast.[1]

Following a riot in the Summer of 1872 that served as a precursor to the 1886 Belfast Riots, he put forth a proclamation that closed public houses for a week, authorized government forces to disperse any public gatherings, and authorized government forces to enter any buildings where shots had been fired.[2]

Savage eventually removed constabulary forces from the city, citing the "perfectly peaceful condition" that had arisen after hostilities had cooled.[3]

He married a woman named Mary Turtle in 1838,[4] and died in 1883, allegedly committing suicide without reason.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1 January 1881). The baronetage and knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 733.
  2. ↑ Doyle, Mark (11 August 2016). Communal Violence in the British Empire: Disturbing the Pax. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 68. ISBN 9781474268271.
  3. ↑ Radford, Mark (23 April 2015). The Policing of Belfast 1870-1914. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 78–79. ISBN 9781472506375.
  4. ↑ Dod, Charles Roger; Dod, Robert Phipps (1 January 1904). Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. p. 806.
  5. ↑ "National Library of Australia". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 July 1883. p. 4. Retrieved 11 May 2017.


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