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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lord Gort (left) and Lieutenant-General Pownall study a map at GHQ in France, 26 November 1939. The Pillbox affair, also known as the Pillbox incident, was a military and political episode which occurred in Britain between November 1939 and January 1940 during the Second World War which resulted in the January 1940 dismissal of Leslie Hore-Belisha from the post of British War Minister.
Example: James, Viscount Severn . Viscounts are often the children of an earl, like Prince Edward’s son, James, but it’s also a title that can be given. This title ranks above a baron and ...
Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort, MC, KStJ (12 February 1888 – 21 May 1975) was an Anglo-Irish peer, connoisseur and collector of fine art, antiques, and objets d'art, whose seat was at Hamsterley Hall, County Durham. He was appointed High Sheriff of Durham in 1934. [1]
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 ...