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Authorised form of nameGage; Thomas (- 1754); 1st Viscount Gage
Dates - 1754
NationalityBritish
Place of deathFirle, Sussex
Date of death21 December 1754
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Firle, Sussex
ActivityCareer:
Converted from Roman Catholicism; MP for Minehead (1717); MP for Tewkesbury (1721-1754); Verdurer of the Forest of Dean (-1752); Master of the Household to Frederick, Prince of Wales (1743-1751)
Honours:
Baron Gage of Castlebar, County Mayo, and Viscount Gage of Castle Island, County Kerry, 1720
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/12/1728
RelationshipsSon of Joseph Gage of Sherborne Castle, Oxfordshire, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Penruddock of Hale, Hampshire; succeeded his cousin Sir William Gage as 8th Bart and in the estate of Firle (1744).
Married: 1) Benedicta Maria Theresa, daughter of Henry Benedict Hall of High Meadow, Gloucestershire, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Sir John Fortescue, Bart, of Salden, Buckinghamshire; 2) Jane, widow of Henry Jermyn Bond of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and daughter of - Godfrey
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; GEC
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1754, p579
CodeNA7353
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/391/10Bond of Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage, to the Treasurer of the Royal Society25 December 1731
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