Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage
(1761-1808)
BIRTH
March 4, 1761
PLACE
Montreal
DEATH
January 29, 1808
PLACE
London
FAMILY
FATHER
Thomas Gage
(1719-1787)
SISTER
Maria Theresa Gage
(1762-1832)
SISTER
Louisa Elizabeth Gage
(1766-1832)
SISTER
Charlotte Margaret Gage
(1773-1812)
BROTHER
William Hall Gage
(1777-1864)
CHILDREN
Margaret Kemble Gage
(1734-1824)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Henry Gage, third Viscount Gage (1761–1808), was the son of General Thomas Gage and Margaret Kemble, born in Montreal. He entered the British army in 1777 and served during the American Revolution, later rising to major-general. Briefly elected for Warwick in 1790, he entered the peerage on his uncle’s death in 1791. He married Susanna Skinner and continued a military career until his death in London. His marriage brought Warren family manuscripts into the Gage papers.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage with work or public activity as a soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage died on Jan 29, 1808 in London. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Briefly elected for Warwick in 1790, he entered the peerage on his uncle’s death in 1791. He was also a captain in the Sussex yeomanry, a lt.-colonel in 1798 and Colonel of the South Pevensey Volunteers in 1803. Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage died on Jan 29, 1808 in London. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage, son of General Thomas Gage. Alden’s biography concerns his father, not Henry’s own military career. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography — H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (editors). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1790–1820 — R. G. Thorne (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. General Gage in America — John Richard Alden. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
4. The Complete Peerage, Volume V — G. E. Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs; H. A. Doubleday (editors). [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
5. The British Army in North America, 1775–1783 — Robin May. [Related military history] Find on Amazon
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