Gage, Sir Thomas Rookwood, c.1720-1796 (5th Baronet)
Person
Dates
- Existence: c.1720 - 1796
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Book of songs, 1750-1796
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hengrave 55
Scope and Contents
Volume of popular songs, with melodies, inscribed on inside front cover 'This collection of songs is in the hand writing of Sir Thomas Gage 5th Bart', i.e. Sir Thomas Rookwood Gage (c.1720-96). The song Johnny Wilkes, on the politician and journalist John Wilkes (1725-97), probably places the compilation of the volume in the late 1760s or 1770s. The words of The hunting song in Apollo and Daphne were composed by Paul Whitehead (1710-74). Inside the front cover are a few additional verses, in...
Dates:
1750-1796
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Manuscripts from Hengrave Hall, Suffolk
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hengrave
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a mixture of family and estate papers relating to the Hengrave Hall estate, owned by the Kitson and Gage families, alongside antiquarian records collected by two members of the Gage family in the early 19th century. There is also a small collection of records relating to the Rookwoods of Coldham Hall, who married into the Gage family in the 19th century. These records have been kept separate to the main series except where it is not possible to tell whether or...
Dates:
1187-1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
File
Plan of Hengrave Hall as it stood in 1775, 1775
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hengrave 27/2
Scope and Contents
Front elevation and ground plan, rooms and spaces named according to a numbered schedule. This shows the Hall before the demolitions and remodelling recorded in Lenny's survey plans of 1824. [2] refers to 'Mr. Kendals prospective elevation', which might relate to the section [1]. If so, the identity of 'Mr. Kendal' has not been established (it was possibly John Kendall (1766-829), a pupil of James Paine, who exhibited architectural designs at the Royal Academy in 1781-84). The drawing is...
Dates:
1775
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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