Henry Gage, 5th Viscount Gage


Henry Charles Gage, 5th Viscount Gage was a British aristocrat. He inherited the title Viscount Gage in 1877 from his grandfather.
His grandparents had extensive roots in British North America as descendants from the Schuyler family, the Delancey family, and the Van Cortlandt family.
He was engaged to the musician, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, but she broke it off when human sexuality was explained to her. He married Leila Peel in 1894.
He commissioned major alterations and renovations of Firle Place by Billy Freeman Thomas. Gage had a new staircase and garden terraces installed at the manor for his wife to entertain nobility and royalty.

Family

He was the son of Hon. Henry Edward Hall Gage, and Sophia Selena Knightley.
He married Leila Georgina Peel; they had four children: