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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.