James Savage

James Savage (d. 1796) was the BMS’s India House counselor. He also was the Secretary of the Good Samaritan Society in Shoe Lane for many years, and as a result was instrumental in the calling and placing of John Fountain as a missionary for the BMS in India. As S. Pearce Carey writes, “[John] Fountain, an eager helper of his Social Mission in Shoe Lane, off Fleet Street, had so impressed him by his versatile vivacity that he [Savage] offered to send him to India as a lay helper to Carey, to which Fountain eagerly agreed. Alas!  it was all frustrated by Mr. Savage’s sudden death.”  See Carey, William Carey, 168.