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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.

GAHAGAN, FREDERICK, son of Terence Gahagan MD, Physician General, EICS Madras, and Lucy, dau. of Gabriel Braham; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1795; Minor Cadet, EICS Bengal 18 Mar 1783 – struck off 2 May 1786; Writer, EICS Madras 1797; Assistant, Public Revenue and Commercial Department 1798; afterwards Assistant to Commercial Resident at the Presidency; Assistant, Governor of Ceylon 13 Sep 1799; Head Assistant, Revenue and Judicial Dept., 10 Nov 1801; Deputy Postmaster-Gen., 3 Jul 1802; Subordinate Collector, Ceded Districts 13 May 1803; Collector, Zillah of Bellary, 28 Oct 1807; Secretary, Revenue and Judicial Dept., 18 Mar 1809; French Translator to Government, 7 Nov 1809; Superintendent of Stamps, 1 Jan 1810; Third Judge of Provincial Court, Central Division, 11 May 1812; d. at Nellore, Madras 19 May 1815.

GAHAGAN, GEORGE, brother of Frederick Gahagan (qv); b. 6 May 1792; in school list 1803; left Christmas 1804; [presumably Ensign, 98th Foot 15 May 1813, still in Army List 1815, not 1816]; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 23 Nov 1816. [perhaps m. at St. Bees, Cumberland 6 Aug 1826 Jane Wallace (IGI)]

GAHAGAN, HENRY, brother of Frederick Gahagan (qv); bapt. 13 Oct 1780; adm.; KS 1795; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1799, adm. pens. 6 May 1799, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Jun 1799, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1800 - void 2 Jul 1810; BA 1803; MA 1806; Minor Cadet, EICS Bengal 18 Mar 1783 – struck off 2 May 1786; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Mar 1799, called to bar 1805 [check date]; practised at Madras, but subsequently returned to England; d. 24 Feb 1834.

GAHAGAN, THOMAS, brother of Frederick Gahagan (qv); b. 21 Sep 1790; in school list 1803; Writer, EICS Madras 1 Sep 1804; Assistant, Revenue and Judicial Dept., 18 Aug 1806; Assistant to Register of Zillah of Mangalore 1808; Deputy Secretary, Board of Revenue 1809; Head Assistant, Collector of Malabar 1812; Register, Zillah of Canara 1813, Zillah of Masulipatam 1815; Register to Provincial Court, Northern Division 1816; Head Asistant, Collector and Assistant magistrate, Chingleput 1817; Judge and Criminal Judge, Zillah of Nellore 13 Mar 1820; on leave in England 1823-8; Judge and Criminal Judge, Malabar 26 Apr 1828; Second Judge of Provincial Court, Central Division 20 Apr 1830; m. 10 Dec 1825 Elizabeth Ordidge, dau. of Richard Bromley, Stoke Villa, Devon; d. at Chitor, North Arcot, India 28 Nov 1833.

GALE, ---; b.; in school lists 1656. [Perhaps John Gale, youngest brother of Henry Gale (qv)]