William Saville-Kent was born on July 10, 1845, in Sidmouth, Devon, England.

He was an English marine biologist and author. He was educated at King's College London and the Royal School of Mines under T.H. Huxley. From 1866 to 1872, he held various jobs working at the Cambridge Museum, Hunterian Museum, and the British Museum. He became a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of London (1869) and the Linnean Society of London (1873). In 1870, Saville-Kent received a grant from the Royal Society to conduct a dredging survey off Portugal. He worked as Curator and Naturalist at the Brighton Aquarium (1872–1873), the Manchester Aquarium (1873–1876), and various other aquariums (the Great Yarmouth Aquarium and the Royal Aquarium), where he was a pioneer of the concept of sustainable fisheries. He returned to Brighton in 1879, and on the recommendation of T.H. Huxley to the Tasmanian government to restore badly depleted oyster beds, he became Inspector of Fisheries in Tasmania in 1884. He was appointed Commissioner of Fisheries for Queensland (1889-1892) and Commissioner of Fisheries for Western Australia (1893-1895). Saville-Kent went on to chair the Royal Society of Queensland in 1889–1890. He began to culture pearls in tropical Australia and was probably the first to succeed in producing both blister and spherical pearls of commercial quality. The author of many scientific papers and reports, he wrote three major books: A Manual of the Infusoria (3 vols., 1880-82), The Great Barrier Reef (1893), and The Naturalist in Australia (1897).

In 1872, he married Elizabeth Susanna Bennett (1849–1875), and in 1876, he married Mary Ann Livesey (1845–1919). He died on October 11, 1908, in Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

Soviet physiologist and pharmacologist.

Mary Matilda Workman Savage was born in Montreal in 1840, the daughter of Benjamin Workman and Mary Ann Mills. In 1862 she married Joseph Savage. She died in 1927 in Montreal.

Sir George Henry Savage was born on November 12, 1842, in Brighton, England, the son of William Dawson Savage, a chemist and druggist.

He was a prominent English psychiatrist. He received medical training at the Sussex County Hospital and Guy’s Hospital, winning the Treasurer’s gold medal and qualifying in 1864. He graduated from the University of London (M.B., 1865; M.D., 1867). Savage was a resident both at Guy’s and the Bethlem Royal Hospital and passed a few years in general practice at Alston Moor, Cumberland. After returning to Bethlem Hospital as Assistant Medical Officer in 1872, he succeeded to the post of Physician-Superintendent in 1878, a position he retained till 1888. Savage was also consulting physician at the Royal Institution for the Mentally Deficient, Earlswood, for twenty years and a lecturer on mental diseases at Guy’s. He examined mental pathology for London University and, as an active member of the Medico-Psychological Association, was elected to its presidency in 1886. He delivered the Lumleian Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians in 1907 and the Harveian Oration of 1909. He was co-editor of the Journal of Mental Science from 1878 until 1894. Savage was an original member of the Neurological Society and was elected president in 1897 when he spoke on heredity and neurosis. He was a prolific writer, publishing over a hundred articles in various medical journals, capitalizing on the clinical material provided by his extensive hospital experience. His most famous private patient was the novelist Virginia Woolf. Savage also published on forensic psychiatry, becoming known as an expert witness in insanity pleas. His textbook on “Insanity and Allied Neuroses” (1884) met with a favourable reception. In 1912, Savage was knighted and elected the first president of the newly formed psychiatric section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a sociable man of many interests, a strong supporter of medical education for women, and a keen Alpine climber, golfer, botanist, and fisherman.

In 1867, he married Margaret Walton (-1868) and in 1882, he remarried Adelaide Mary Sutton (c. 1856-). He died on July 5, 1921, in St. Marylebone, Middlesex, England.