Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage

(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

Ancestors 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

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Gage
• GAGE, 8th Viscount, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
• Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage

References

1. "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