Viscount Gage, of Castle Island in the County of Kerry of the Kingdom of Ireland, is a title in the

Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divisi ...

. It was created in 1720 for

Thomas Gage General Thomas Gage (10 March 1718/192 April 1787) was a British Army general officer and colonial official best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as British commander-in-chief in the early days of th ...

, along with the subsidiary title of Baron Gage, of

Castlebar Castlebar () is the county town of County Mayo, Ireland. Developing around a 13th century castle of the de Barry family, from which the town got its name, the town now acts as a social and economic focal point for the surrounding hinterland. W ...

in the County of Mayo, also in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1744 he also succeeded his cousin as eighth Baronet, of

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 ...

. The titles remain united. The Gage family descends from

John Gage John Burdette Gage (born October 9, 1942) was the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he is credited with creating the phrase The Network is the Computer. He served as vice president and chief researcher and director of the Science Office ...

, who was created a baronet, of Firle Place in the County of Sussex, in the Baronetage of England on 26 March 1622. George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage Volume 1'' 1900
/ref> His great-grandson, the seventh Baronet, represented Seaford in Parliament. He was succeeded by his first cousin,

Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage (c. 1695 – 21 December 1754) of High Meadow, Gloucestershire and later Firle Place, Sussex, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Whig for 33 years between 1717 and 1754. ...

, the eighth Baronet. He sat as a

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

for Minehead and

Tewkesbury Tewkesbury ( ) is a medieval market town and civil parish in the north of Gloucestershire, England. The town has significant history in the Wars of the Roses and grew since the building of Tewkesbury Abbey. It stands at the confluence of the Ri ...

and also served as

Governor of Barbados This article contains a list of viceroys in Barbados from its initial colonisation in 1627 by England until it achieved independence in 1966. From 1833 to 1885, Barbados was part of the colony of the Windward Islands, and the governor of Barbad ...

. In 1720, 24 years before succeeding in the baronetcy, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Gage and Viscount Gage. His second son was the military commander the Hon.

. Lord Gage was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Viscount. He represented Seaford in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...

and served as for many years as

Paymaster of Pensions In 18th century Britain, the Paymaster of Pensions was the official in charge of payments of Crown pensions and bounties. The first paymaster was Edward Nicholas in 1703, and the post was abolished in 1782 by the Civil List and Secret Service Money ...

. In 1780 he was created Baron Gage, of Firle in the County of Sussex, in the Peerage of Great Britain, with remainder to heirs male, and in 1790 he was made Baron Gage, of High Meadow in the County of Gloucester, also in the Peerage of Great Britain, with remainder to his nephew and heir presumptive Henry, the eldest son of his younger brother, the aforementioned Sir Thomas Gage. On Lord Gage's death in 1791 the barony of 1780 became extinct while he was succeeded in the barony of 1790, the baronetcy and the Irish titles by his nephew Henry, the third Viscount. He was a

Major-General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

in the Army. the titles are held by his great-great-great-grandson, the eighth Viscount, who succeeded his elder brother in 1993. The family seat is

, near

Firle Firle (; Sussex dialect: ''Furrel'' ) is a village and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England. Firle refers to an old-English/Anglo-Saxon word ''fierol'' meaning overgrown with oak. Although the original division of East ...

, East Sussex.

Gage baronets, of Firle Place (1622)

* Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet (died 1633) * Sir Thomas Gage, 2nd Baronet (died 1654) * Sir Thomas Gage, 3rd Baronet (died 1660) * Sir John Gage, 4th Baronet (–1699) * Sir John Gage, 5th Baronet (c. 1691–1700) * Sir Thomas Gage, 6th Baronet (c. 1694–1713) *

Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet Sir William Gage (1695 – 23 April 1744) of Firle Place was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1744. He was an early patron of cricket, in association with his friend Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Ri ...

(1695–1744) * Sir Thomas Gage, 8th Baronet (died 1754) (had been created Viscount Gage in 1720)

Viscounts Gage (1720)

(died 1754) *

William Hall Gage, 2nd Viscount Gage William Hall Gage, 2nd Viscount Gage (6 January 1717/18 – 11 October 1791) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1744 and 1780 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Gage. He was equerry to the Prince of Wales. ...

(1718–1791) * Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage (1761–1808) * Henry Hall Gage, 4th Viscount Gage (1791–1877) * Henry Charles Gage, 5th Viscount Gage (1854–1912) * Henry Rainald Gage, 6th Viscount Gage (1895–1982) * George John St Clere Gage, 7th Viscount Gage (1932–1993) * (Henry) Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage (born 1934) The

heir apparent An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...

is the present holder's son the Hon. Henry William Gage (born 1975).

Notes

References

* *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gage 1720 establishments in Ireland Viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland Noble titles created in 1720