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Gort became a staunch supporter of the arts in Winnipeg. [3] Gort served under his brother John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, in the Second World War. He gained the rank of honorary colonel in 1948 in the service of the 464 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery.
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC (10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946) was a senior British Army officer. As a young officer during the First World War , he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of the Canal du Nord .
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 ...
Norma Lorraine Price (August 19, 1920 [1] – February 24, 2008) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She was born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , [ 2 ] and was a Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba Legislature from 1977 to 1981, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Sterling Lyon .
Lord Gort married firstly the Hon. Maria, daughter of Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore and Katherine Waller, on 13 December 1814. [1] They had eleven children who survived infancy, six sons and five daughters, including: Standish, the eldest surviving son, (1819-1900) John Prendergast Vereker (1822-1891) who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in ...
Gort was a Colonel in the Limerick Militia and sat as a Member of the Irish House of Commons for Carlow from 1776 to 1783 and for Limerick City between 1785 and 1798. In 1810 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Kiltarton , of Gort in the County of Galway , and in 1816 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Gort , also in ...
There were children from both marriages. Lord Gort died on 11 November 1842, aged 74, and was succeeded by his son from his first marriage, John. Lady Gort died 2 April 1858 at Gort House, Petersham, London, [8] and was buried at St Andrew's Church, Ham. [1] [2] Following the 1798 Battle of Collooney, the thanks of Parliament were voted to him.
John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1790–1865), Irish peer and politician; John Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849–1902), Anglo-Irish peer, landowner and Army officer; John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946), British Army officer; John Vereker (civil servant) (born 1944), governor of Bermuda