Rupert Savage was born in Milton Graveshead, Kent, England 29 March 1871 and was articled to Theodore Knowles Green (1832-1916) in London in 1889. He also attended the Architectural Association Schools in London. He then worked as an assistant to Ernest George (1839-1922) and Harold Ainsworth Peto (1854-1933) of Ernest George & Peto; John Jones Bateman (1817-1903) and Charles Edward Bateman (1817-1903) of Bateman & Bateman; to Alfred Reading (1850-1908); to Horsley Lloyd; to Alfred Hessell Tiltman; and to Joseph Crouch (1859-1936) and Edmund Butler (1862-1946) of Crouch & Butler.
Savage commenced independent practice as an architect in London in 1899. He later practised in Birmingham. In 1902 he became a partner in the architectural firm Crouch & Butler, subsequently Crouch, Butler & Savage. Savage was also in partnership with William Cyril Moss (1883-1959). Following Savage's retirement in 1952, Moss took over the practice.
Savage was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1913. He was President of the Birmingham and Five Counties Architectural Association from 1922 to 1924.
His address was given as 148 Aldersgate Street, London and 2 Crawsley Rd, Leyton in 1901; 127 Sandon Road, Edgbaston in 1911; 39 Newhall Street, Birmingham in 1911 and 1913; New Street Chambers. Birmingham and 245, Hagley Road, Edgbaston in 1914; 67a, New Street, Birmingham in 1923 and 1939; Society of Artists' Buildings, New Street, Birmingham in 1926. He died on 2 November 1956
Works by Crouch, Butler & Savage: Technical School, Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield (1903); New premises, Barwick Street, Birmingham for Barwick Estates (1903); Chapel, Wesleyan School, Streetley (1903); Congregational Chapel, Lea Road, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton (1905); Factory , Hockley Hill, Birmingham for S. Wall (1905); Wesleyan Church, Briton Ferry, Glamorgan (1906); Rawtenstall Municipal Building and library, Rawtenstall, Lancashire (1906); Holyfield Road Elementary School, Reddicap Heath, Sutton Coldfield (1906); Church hall, parsonage and caretaker's house, Four Oaks Methodist Church, Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield (1907); Public Library, Walsall Street, Wednsbury (1908); Wesleyan Church, Tyburn, Birmingham (1909); Wesleyan Church, Stockfield Green, Birmingham (1909); Wesleyan Church, Streetley, Birmingham (1909); Hostel for Girls, Corporation Street, Birmingham (1910); Brook Lane Elementary School, King's Heath, Birmingham (1911); Premises, Cornwall Street, Birmingham for Coud Bros. (1911); Women's Hostel, St. Mary's Row, Birmingham foe Wesleyan Central Committee (1912); New premises for Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, New Street, Birmingham (1912); Grammar School, Barnsley, Yorkshire (1914); 8 houses for F. Isherwood, Alum Park Road, Birmingham (1914; 114 houses, for F. Isherwood, Foxton Road, Saltley, Birmingham (1914); and 12 houses, for F. Isherwood, Hazelbeach Road, Saltley, Birmingham (1914)
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Hull and Dudley Training Colls.; Rawtenstall and Wednesbury Public Libraries; Sutton Technical School; Barnsley Grammar School; elementary schools: — Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Bootle, etc. Swimming baths at Harborne and King's Heath; motor-'bus depots, Birmingham; Masonic Hall, Birmingham; etc. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1926]
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See also:
Historic England [link below] - contains over 40 references to architectural work by Crouch & Butler and by Crouch, Butler & Savage
British Listed Buildings [link below] - 40 listed buildings by Crouch & Butler and Crouch, Butler & Savage
List of Architectural Works of Crouch & Butler in Herbert, Rudi and Shackley, Barbara. ‘Crouch and Butler’ pp. 471-476 [Bibliography below]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Herbert, Rudi and Shackley, Barbara. ‘Crouch and Butler’ in Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects, edited by Phillada Ballard. Wetherby: Oblong Creative Ltd. for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society, 2009, pp. 451-478
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 191, 16 November 1956 p. 857
Who's Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London" The Architectural Press 1926