Sarah Henry Savage

Sarah Henry Savage (1664-1752), diarist, daughter of a nonconformist minister and diarist, Philip Henry (1631-96), from Flintshire. She learned Hebrew as a child, and began diary-keeping (for Sundays) at an early age. She began in 1686, keeping close scrutiny over her spiritual life. She closed her life in West Bromwich, meeting with the dissenting congregation. A memoir, based on her diary, was published by John Bickerton Williams in 1818 (also 1845) as an example of ‘female virtue’. See J. B. Williams, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs Sarah Savage.(London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1828).