Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet

Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet (died 3 October 1633) was an English baronet and landowner, and ancestor of the Viscounts Gage.

Gage was the son of Thomas Gage and Elizabeth Guilford.^[1] He married Penelope Darcy, a daughter of Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers and Mary Kitson, on 28 June 1611. They had eight children. Through his mother-in-law, Gage came into the possession of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk which would later become the seat of his descendants, the Rokewode-Gage baronets. He was made a baronet, of Firley in Sussex in the Baronetage of England, by Charles I on 26 March 1622.^[2] He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Thomas.^[3] His third son, Edward, was also created a baronet.

References

1. John Debrett, The Baronetage of England (Volume 1, 1824), 315.
2. John Debrett, The Baronetage of England (Volume 1, 1824), 315.
3. John Debrett, The Baronetage of England (Volume 1, 1824), 315.