Claim: Savage, an English nonconformist minister and dissenting tutor, first thought of medicine, and spent a year or two with his Uncle Toulmin, an apothecary, in Old Gravel Lane, Wapping; then through the influence of Isaac Watts, he entered the Fund Academy.
Evidence: Samuel Morton Savage (1721–1791) was an English nonconformist minister and dissenting tutor. Savage first thought of medicine, and spent a year or two with his Uncle Toulmin, an apothecary, in Old Gravel Lane, Wapping. Through the influence of Isaac Watts he entered the Fund Academy, under John Eames.