Background
Gage was the son of Thomas Gage and Elizabeth Guilford.
Gage was the son of Thomas Gage and Elizabeth Guilford.
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.