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The 1946 title was Viscount Gort, of Hamsterley Hall in the County of Durham, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Field Marshal Lord Gort had no living sons and, unlike his own ancestor, did not have a special remainder, so on his death just one month after the creation of the new title, the new viscountcy became extinct, whilst the Irish ...
The Viscount Gort: 1816 [Notes 3] Foley Robert Standish Prendergast Vereker, 9th Viscount Gort Ireland Robert Vereker: 37 The Viscount Exmouth: 1816 Paul Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth: United Kingdom Edward Pellew: 38 The Viscount Combermere: 1827 Thomas Stapleton-Cotton, 6th Viscount Combermere United Kingdom Laszlo Stapleton-Cotton: 39 The ...
Lord and Lady Gort had two sons, who both succeeded to the title: John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946) Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort (1888–1975) Lady Gort continued to live at East Cowes Castle after her husband´s death, and remarried, in 1907, Colonel Starling Maux Benson, of the 17th Lancers. Both she and her second husband ...
His maternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet, who was killed in action at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709, and Penelope Cadogan, sister of William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan. In 1760 Gort succeeded to the estates of his maternal uncle Thomas Prendergast, 2nd Baronet , and assumed the surname of Prendergast in lieu of Smyth.
The Prendergast Baronetcy, of Gort in the County of Galway was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 15 July 1699 for the Irish soldier and politician Thomas Prendergast. Sir Thomas was killed at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709 and was succeeded by his son, the second baronet. He was a member of both the Irish and British ...
Gort's daughter, Jacqueline Corinne Yvonne Vereker, who was born on 20 October 1914, married (June 1940) The Honourable William Sidney, later the 1st Viscount De L'Isle. [ 2 ] Portrayals
When Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh, his son, James, inherited father's more senior subsidiary title, and is now styled as James, Earl of Wessex, instead of James, Viscount Severn ...
Elizabeth Prendergast, who married Sir John Dickson Haman, 1st Baronet, [5] and, secondly, Charles Smyth, parents of John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort. [6] Anne Prendergast, who married Samuel Hobson, Esq. of Muckridge House, Youghal. [4] Juliana Prendergast (d. 1758), who married Chaworth Brabazon, 6th Earl of Meath. [4]