Title: Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers
Content:  Major General Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers (c. 1628 &ndash; 14 September 1694) was an English nobleman and soldier. He was the first son of John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers by his wife Catherine, daughter of William Parker, 13th Baron Morley. His father was closely involved in the English Civil War on the Royalist side from 1641. Consequently, he lost his castles at Halton and Rocksavage and their contents were confiscated. About 1647, he married firstly Elizabeth (b. 1627), illegitimate daughter of Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland by his mistress Martha Jeanes. Their children included: Thomas, who married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby; Richard, who succeeded as 4th Earl Rivers; Elizabeth; and Annabella. They also had other children who died young. 
Title: Savage family
Content:  Regiment of Foote in support of Charles I. Rocksavage ruined for the first time as a result of his Royalist affiliation. Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers (c. 1628 – 14 September 1694) - Major General in the English army. Denounced as a Roman Catholic during the Popish Plot, although the Savage family had historically been Catholics the evidence was so flimsy that no charges were ever brought against him. Grandson of William Parker, 13th Baron Morley, 4th Baron Monteagle Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (ca. 1654 – 18 August 1712) - General in the English and then British armies. Held the positions of Master-General 
Title: Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers
Content:  was widely believed to be a Roman Catholic, and during the Popish Plot he was denounced by informers, but the evidence was so flimsy that no charges were ever brought against him. About 1684, he married secondly Arabella, daughter of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey. They had no issue. He died at his house in Great Queen Street in the Parish of St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex. A memorial to him by William Stanton was installed in St Michaels Church, Macclesfield. Documented evidence exists in the form of a pamphlet which details a murder by a Thomas Savage of St Giles in the Fields. It is likely the Thomas in question is the son of the 3rd Earl Rivers, or a family relation.
Title: Viscount Savage
Content: Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage (1586–1635) ; John Savage, 2nd Viscount Savage (1603–1654) (succeeded as 2nd Earl Rivers in 1640) ; For further succession, see Earl Rivers 
Title: John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers
Content: Thomas, who succeeded as 3rd Earl Rivers ; Jane, who married firstly George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos, secondly Sir William Sidley, 4th Baronet, and thirdly George Pitt ; Elizabeth, who married William Petre, 4th Baron Petre ; Catherine, who married Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet ; Mary, who married Henry Killigrew, groom of the bedchamber to James II, son of Thomas Killigrew. A member of the Savage family, John was the first son of Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage, and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers. He was born on 25 February 1603 and christened on 11 March 1603 in the parish of Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate, London. He succeeded to the Savage viscountcy in 1635 on the death of his father, and succeeded to the Rivers earldom on the death of his grandfather in 1640, by a remainder to his father and his heirs. By 1626, he had married Catherine, daughter of William Parker, 13th Baron Morley by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, and they had eight children, including:  By 1647, he had married Mary, daughter of Thomas Ogle, and they had one child, Peter.
Title: Savage family
Content:  to advise as to ways and means of increasing the King's revenue, and for the sale of the King's lands. Father of John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers and husband of Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers. Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers and Viscountess Savage - English courtier and a Royalist victim of uprisings during the English Civil War. Daughter of Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers, wife of Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage and mother of John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers (25 February 1603 – 10 October 1654) - Member of Parliament for Cheshire and supporter of the Royalist cause. Raised the Earl 
Title: John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers
Content:  John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers (25 February 1603 – 10 October 1654) was a wealthy English nobleman, politician and Royalist from Cheshire.
Title: Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers
Content:  General Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers PC (ca. 1654 – 18 August 1712) was an English nobleman and soldier who was a senior Army officer in the English and then British Army. The second son of Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers and his first wife Elizabeth Scrope, Savage was styled Viscount Colchester after the death of his elder brother Thomas in 1680, he was designated by that title until he succeeded to the peerage upon the death of his father, the 3rd Earl, in 1694. Savage served as Master-General of the Ordnance and Constable of the Tower, and was briefly commander-in-chief of the forces in lieu of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde until his death in 1712.
Title: Viscount Savage
Content:  Viscount Savage was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1626 for Sir Thomas Savage, 2nd Baronet, husband of Elizabeth Savage (whom he married in 1602) and heir-apparent by special remainder to his father-in-law's titles of Baron Darcy of Chiche (1613), Viscount Colchester (1621) and Earl Rivers (1626). He died in 1635 before inheriting these titles, so on the death of Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers in 1640 the titles went instead to Savage's son John, 2nd Viscount Savage, who became 2nd Earl Rivers. Thomas' widow Elizabeth was created Countess Rivers in her own right in 1641. The Savage daughters, Dorothy and Elizabeth, were great beauties, painted by Van Dyck. Dorothy married Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire, and Elizabeth married Sir John Thimbleby of Irnham. The Savage viscountcy and baronetcy became extinct along with the Rivers titles in 1737. John Savage was created baronet, of Rocksavage, Cheshire, on 29 June 1611.
Title: Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage
Content: John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers (1603 – 1654), married firstly, Catherine, daughter of William Parker, 13th Baron Morley and secondly, Mary, daughter of Thomas Ogle. ; Thomas Savage, married Bridget, widow of Sir Edward Somerset, son of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester, daughter of William Whitmore by Margaret Beeston, and great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Cromwell, 1st earl of Essex. ; Francis Savage (bef. 1609 – ) ; William Savage (1619 – ) ; James Savage (1609 – 1638) ; Richard Savage, baptised in 1622. ; Charles Savage (c. 1622– ), married and had a daughter: ; Mary Savage, married Jeremy Thoresby, son of John Thoresby of Leeds and younger brother of the antiquarian, Ralph Thoresby. ; Jane Savage (c. 1604 – bef. 

Question: Who is the father of Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers?
Answer: John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers.