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GAGE, W. H.; name up School, with accompanying date 1796. Treated by Russell Barker and Stenning as a separate W. H. Gage, but it seems more probable that the W. H. Gage concerned was Sir William Hall Gage (qv), with an erroneous date appended : see also GAGE, H. H. ]

GAGE, WILLIAM HALL, 2ND VISCOUNT GAGE (I), son of Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage (I) MP FRS, and his first wife Benedicta Maria Theresa, only dau. of Henry Benedict Hall, High Meadow, Gloucs.; b. 1 Jan 1718; adm. Jan 1727/8; left 1735; Grand Tour (Italy) 1739-40; Equerry to Frederick, Prince of Wales 29 Oct 1742-51; MP Seaford 9 May 1744-7, 1754-80; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Gage (I) 21 Dec 1754; Paymaster of the Pensions 22 Dec 1755 – Jun 1763, 27 Jul 1765 - Mar 1782 (when post was abolished); created Baron Gage (GB) 17 Oct 1780 and, with remainder, 1 Nov 1790; member Society of Dilettanti 1740/1; m. 3 Feb 1757 Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Gideon, Stepney, Middlesex, financier, and sister of Sampson Gideon, 1st Baron Eardley (I); d. 11 Oct 1791.

GAGE, SIR WILLIAM HALL, sixth son of Hon. Thomas Gage (qv); b. 2 Oct 1777; adm. 17 Sep 1787; First Class Volunteer, Royal Navy 21 Nov 1789; Midshipman 1 Sep 1790; served in actions off Toulon 1795 and at battle of Cape St. Vincent 1797; Lieut., 11 Mar 1796; Commander 13 Jun 1797; Post Captain 26 Jul 1797; Rear Adm., 19 Jul 1821; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies 1825-30, in the Downs 1833; GCH 19 Apr 1834; Vice-Adm., 10 Jan 1837; Commander-in-Chief, Lisbon Apr - Dec 1837; a Lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep 1841 - Jul 1846; Adm., 9 Nov 1846; Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth 1848-51; Rear-Admiral of UK 24 Oct 1853; Vice-Adm. of UK 6 Nov 1854; GCB 18 May 1860; Admiral of the Fleet 20 May 1862; d. 4 Jan 1864. DNB.

GAGE, HON. WILLIAM, second son of Henry Hall Gage, 4th Viscount Gage (qv); b. 12 Sep 1820; adm. (G) 17 Apr 1830; Ensign, 83rd Foot 22 Mar 1839; Lieut., 2 Aug 1842; Capt., 9 Mar 1849; d. at Poona, Bombay 15 Jul 1849.

GAGE, WILLIAM, son of Hon. Thomas Gage (qv); b.; adm. 3 Nov 1771; d. 30 Oct 1774, aged 12.

GAGE-BROWN, CHARLES HERBERT, son of Sir Charles Gage Brown KCMG LLD MD MRCS LSA, Sloane Street, London, Medical Adviser to Colonial Office and Crown Agents, and Mary Anne, dau. of M. William McPherson Rice, Chief Naval Constructor, Pembroke and Woolwich Dockyards; b. 2 Jul 1859; adm. 23 Jan 1873 (G); left Aug 1874; Middlesex Hospital; MB CM Edinburgh 1884; MRCS 1886; MD Edinburgh 1887; assumed additional surname of Gage; a medical practitioner in London; m. 1891 Janet Pitcairn, dau. of Rev. John Poole Sandlands, Vicar of Brigstock, Northants; d. 14 Feb 1905.

GAGE-BROWN, WILLIAM PERCY, brother of Charles Herbert Gage-Brown (qv); b. 24 Nov 1860; adm. 23 Jan 1873 (G); left Aug 1874; assumed additional surname of Gage; emigrated to Pukahu, New Zealand; m. Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Roche.

GAGER, WILLIAM, son of Gilbert Gager, Long Melford, Suffolk, and Thomasin, dau. of John Cordell, Edmonton, Middlesex, and sister of Sir William Cordell MP, Master of the Rolls; b. 24 Jul 1555; adm.; QS 1570; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 7 Jul 1574 (CSP Dom, Addit., 1566-79, 487), Westminster Student to 1598; BA 1577; MA 1580 (incorp. Cambridge 1581); BCL and DCL 1589; LLD Cambridge 1601; Surrogate to Richard Swale LLD, Chancellor and Vicar-General, Diocese of Ely 1601; Chancellor, Diocese of Ely, from 29 May 1606; Vicar-General of Ely 1613, 1616, 1618; engaged in a controversy in 1592 with John Rainolds (afterwards President, Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford) as to the morality of stage plays; credited with having maintained at the Oxford Act of 1608 [check date] that husbands might lawfully, if not laudably, beat their wives (Thompson, Christ Church, 42); author of five Latin plays, all of which were acted at Christ Church, Oxford, and a number of published Latin verses; m. Mary ---; buried All Saints, Cambridge 1 Sep 1622. DNB.

GAHAGAN, CHARLES; b.; adm. 29 Apr 1796; in school list 1797; [perhaps m. 10 Dec 1814 Ann Walker (IGI)]; d. 1817. [Presumably brother of Frederick Gahagan]

GAHAGAN, EDWARD PRICE, brother of Frederick Gahagan (qv); b. 22 Aug 1795; in school list 1803; left 1807; Cadet, EICS Madras 1810; Cornet, 5th Madras Light Cavalry 19 Jun 1814; d. at St. Thomé, Madras 4 Dec 1818.