Thomas Gage (botanist)

Sir Thomas Gage, 7th Baronet (1781 – 27 December 1820, Rome) was an English botanist, from a junior branch of the Gage family of Firle, Sussex. The woodland flower Gagea is named in his honour.^[1][2]

He married, Mary-Anne Browne, the daughter of Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare^[3]

In his herbarium, he had various plant specimens including Iris subbiflora.^[4]

References

1. The Gentleman's Magazine. A. Dodd and A. Smith. 1823. pp. 607–608.
2. Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1915). The standard cyclopedia of horticulture, Volume 3. Macmillan.
3. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Henry Colburn. 1839. p. 434.
4. Mills, Colin. "Iris subbiflora Brot.". hortuscamden.com. Retrieved 22 January 2016.