Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage

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(Henry) Nicholas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage (born 9 April 1934) is a British landowner, a peer in the Peerage of Ireland, and a baronet.

He was educated at Eton and Oxford.[1]

He lives at the 15th-century stately home, Firle Place in East Sussex.[2] He has opened Firle Place for public tours and exhibited his paintings in 2010.[3] He offers discounted rents in Firle village for people who work in the village.

Gage is purportedly a lifelong advocate of the Spatchcock chicken cooking method.[4] In 2009 he hit the headlines when he became a father at the age of 75.[1]

Family

He is the son of Henry Rainald Gage, 6th Viscount Gage and Hon. Alexandra Imogen Clair Grenfell. His Gage family ancestry included extensive roots in British North America from the Schuyler family, the Delancey family, and the Van Cortlandt family.

He married Lady Diana Adrienne Beatty (born 13 September 1952), daughter of David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty and Adelle Dillingham, in 1974; they have two children:

  • Hon. Henry William Gage (born 25 June 1975)
  • Hon. Richard David Benedict Gage (born 21 February 1977)[5]

They were divorced in 2004. He married Alexandra Murray Templeton (born 1969);[6] they have a son John Valentine (b. 2009).[7]

Ancestry

Family of Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage
16. Henry Gage, 4th Viscount Gage
8. Hon. Henry Gage
17. Elizabeth Foley
4. Henry Gage, 5th Viscount Gage
18. Sir Charles Knightley, 2nd Baronet of Fawsley
9. Sophia Knightley
19. Selina Hervey
2. Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage
20. William Peel
10. Frederick Peel
21. Lady Jane Moore
5. Leila Peel
22. Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley
11. Hon. Adelaide Hanbury-Tracy
23. Emma Dawkins-Pennant
1. Nicholas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage
24. Charles Grenfell
12. Charles Grenfell
25. Lady Georgiana Molyneux
6. William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
26. Hon. William Lascelles
13. Georgiana Lascelles
27. Lady Caroline Howard
3. Hon. Imogen Grenfell
28. John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
14. Hon. Julian Fane
29. Lady Priscilla Wellesley-Pole
7. Ethel Fane
30. George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper
15. Lady Adine Cowper
31. Anne de Grey, 6th Baroness Lucas of Crudwell

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References

  1. ^ a b "The virile viscount is a dad at 75", The Daily Mail, 20 August 2009
  2. ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207737/The-virile-viscount-dad-75.html#ixzz2Jq1vbewe
  3. ^ "LORD GAGE'S FIRST SALE AND PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS - FIRLE PLACE, NR LEWES", Sussex Life
  4. ^ "Greece: Land of Light", Nicolas Gage, 1 April 2004
  5. ^ "Henry Nicholas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage", thepeerage
  6. ^ "Sussex Lord will be father again at 75", The Argus, Richard Gurner, 16 April 2009
  7. ^ "LORD GAGE'S FIRST SALE AND PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS - FIRLE PLACE, NR LEWES", Sussex Life
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Viscount Gage
1993– 		Succeeded by
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