Lady Mary Gage
(1808-1888)
19 February 1861

Volume 2, page 220, sitting number 2169.

Born Lady Mary Elizabeth Douglas in or about 1808 at Dalkeith in Scotland, she was the daughter of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensbury. On 17 February 1831 she married Reverend Thomas Wentworth Gage, Vicar of Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire. The early death of her husband on 19 March 1837 left her a widow and she never remarried. She had two sons, Charles Wentworth Gage (1832-1868) and Archibald Gage (1837-1871) and two daughters, Frances (1833-1915) and Lucy (1835-1905).

She and her daughters, both unmarried, appear on the 1881 census living at Tonbridge in Kent. They had four servants to look after them.

Lady Mary Gage died on 16 May 1888. A short obituary appeared in the Evening Standard (19 May 1888): 'Lady Mary Gage, eldest surviving daughter of Charles, fifth Marquess of Queensberry, and sister of Lady Harriett Douglas and Lady Anne Drummond Moray, died on Wednesday, at Radnor House, Sandgate, in her 91st year. She was widow of the Rev. Thomas Wentworth Gage, whom she married in February, 1831, and who died in March, 1837.'

[Silvy portraits of her two daughters appear on page 56 of this section. Her son's portrait is on page 23 of this section.]