Career
He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War. Gorges was the son of Sir Thomas Gorges of Langford Wiltshire. Gorges was knighted in 1641 and supported the King.
He was disabled from sitting in parliament in January 1644.
He was imprisoned for 14 months and fined £520. Gorges married firstly to Anne Poole, daughter of Henry Poole of Saperton, and as a widower "aged about 52" married by license of the Bishop of London to Anne Gage, daughter of John Gage, esq.
