Alexandra Murray Gage, Viscountess Gage (née Templeton; born 1969) is a British academic, businesswoman, and aristocrat. She is a

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at the

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, teaching fine art at the university's School of Art and Media. As the second wife of Nicholas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage, she is the

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Firle Place Firle Place is a Manor house in Firle, Sussex, United Kingdom. The Gage family have owned the land at Firle since acquiring it from the Levett family in the 15th century. The manor house was first built in the late 15th century by Sir John Gage ...

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. Lady Gage is the founder and owner of the skincare business Beauty Energy Balms, which makes products from herbs grown in the garden of the Firle estate.

Biography

Lady Gage married Nicholas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage in 2009 at St Thomas à Becket Church, Framfield in an Anglican ceremony celebrated by Rev. Peter Owen-Jones. They have one son together, The Honourable John Valentine Gage. She is Lord Gage's second wife, as he divorced Lady Diana Adrienne Beatty in 2004, and is thirty-eight years younger than her husband. As the Viscountess Gage, she manages the family estate,

, which is open to the public four months out of the year. When Firle Place is used for television and filming projects, she and her husband stay at Charleston Farmhouse, another one of their properties. Lady Gage founded the company Beauty Energy Balms, which makes skincare products from herbs grown in the gardens at Firle Place. She works at the

, as a fine art

at the university's School of Art and Media

References

Living people 1969 births Academics of the University of Brighton British cosmetics businesspeople British viscountesses British women academics British women company founders

Alexandra Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "prot ...

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