John James Savage was born on 10 January 1889 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, the son of John James Savage and Annie Savage née O’Connor. He was educated in Western Australia, went to Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in 1911, and completed his clinical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He held resident posts at the Metropolitan Hospital, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's, the Freemasons', the North Eastern Fever Hospital, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He qualified in 1917, was commissioned in the RAMC and attached to the Royal Air Force, with which he served during the remainder of the war of 1914-1918. He took the Fellowship in 1926, and then returned to Western Australia, where he practised at Mackie Street, Victoria Park, Perth, and later at 40 Falcon Street, Narrogin. During the war of 1939-45 he was medical officer in command of the Narrogin Military Camp from 1940 to 1943. He was an exceptional athlete in many fields. He died at Narogin in 1948. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 3 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**