Henry Gage, 4th Viscount Gage

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Henry Hall Gage, 4th Viscount Gage (December 14, 1791 - January 20, 1877) was Viscount Gage of Firle Place through much of the 19th century.

Gage inherited the Viscountcy at the age of 18 in 1808. On March 8, 1813 Gage married Elizabeth Maria Foley. Their eldest daughter, Caroline Harriet Gage, married the 4th Viscount Gort on May 4, 1847 - their grandson being Field Marshal John Vereker, Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

In 1817, Viscount Gage sold a substational portion of the family's holdings - the Highmeadow estate, 4,257 acres (17 km²) of farms in Staunton, Newland, and English Bicknor and woods in Hadnock, Monmouthshire, and Mailscot, and also ironworks and mills in Redbrook and Lydbrook, to the Crown Commissioners of Woods.

Viscount Gage held a strong interest in politics, holding reactionary conservative views and vigorously opposing Britain's Reform Bill. Gage also spend considerable time in renovating the family manor at Firle.

Preceded by Henry Gage

Viscount Gage 1808–1877

Succeeded by Henry Charles Gage