{{Short description|British politician and judge (1905–1984)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Conolly Gage | honorific_suffix = | image = Conolly Gage in 1948.jpg | caption = Gage in 1948 | constituency_MP = Belfast South | parliament = | majority = | term_start = 26 July 1945 | term_end = 4 November 1952 | predecessor = William Stewart | successor = David Campbell | birth_date = {{birth date|1905|11|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1984|10|03|1905|11|10|df=yes}} | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | party = Ulster Unionist Party | other_party = | spouse = Elinor Nancy Martyn | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Cambridge University<br />Inner Temple | occupation = | profession = Barrister, Judge | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Conolly Hugh Gage''' (10 November 1905 – 3 October 1984) was a British politician and judge.
==Life== A nephew of Sir Denis Henry, Bt., Gage was educated at Repton School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.<ref name=TimesObit>"His Honour Conolly Gage", ''The Times'', 8 October 1984, p. 16</ref> He was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1930,<ref>A. D. McDonnell, ''The Life of Sir Denis Henry: Catholic Unionist'', Ulster Historical Foundation, 2000</ref> and built up a London practice. In 1932, he married Elinor Nancy Martyn.
In 1939, Gage joined the Royal Artillery as a gunner. With the First Canadian Army in the Second World War, he became lieutenant colonel and assistant judge advocate general.<ref>{{cite book|last=Harbinson|first=John F.|title=The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882–1973|year=1973|publisher=Blackstaff Press|location=Belfast|isbn=0856400769|page=[https://archive.org/details/ulsterunionistpa00john_0/page/182 182]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ulsterunionistpa00john_0/page/182}}</ref>
He was elected as an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Belfast South in 1945, resigning in 1952. He was also Recorder of Saffron Walden and Maldon from 1950 to 1952, a County Court judge from 1958 to 1971 and a circuit judge from 1972 to 1978.<ref name=TimesObit/>
His son, William Gage, was also a judge.
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-conolly-gage | Conolly Gage }}
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