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- ↑ "LORD GAGE'S FIRST SALE AND PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS - FIRLE PLACE, NR LEWES", Sussex Life
- ↑ "Greece: Land of Light", Nicolas Gage, 1 April 2004
- ↑ "Henry Nicholas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage", thepeerage
- ↑ "Sussex Lord will be father again at 75", The Argus, Richard Gurner, 16 April 2009
- ↑ "LORD GAGE'S FIRST SALE AND PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS - FIRLE PLACE, NR LEWES", Sussex Life
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