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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 ...
John Prendergast-Smyth, Viscount Gort and Lord Kiltarton, was the nephew of Sir Thomas Prendergast, 2nd Baronet, and had succeeded to the Prendergast estates on the death of this uncle in 1760 (see Prendergast Baronets, of Gort). He was ineligible to inherit the title of his uncle, but the bequest enabled him to develop the status to merit a ...
John Prendergast Vereker (April 1822 – 27 December 1891) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician. He was the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1863 to 1864. [1]John Prendergast Vereker was the second eldest son of John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort, from his first marriage to Hon. Maria O'Grady (1791–1854), daughter of Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore.
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 .
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 ...
John Vereker may refer to: 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
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn at the 2013 Trooping the Colour Ceremony. Getty Images Upon birth, he received the title ...
Born John Smyth, Gort was the son of Charles Smyth, Member of the Irish Parliament for Limerick City, and Elizabeth Prendergast. His paternal grandparents were Thomas Smyth , Bishop of Limerick , and Dorothea Burgh (daughter of Ulysses Burgh ), and his paternal uncles included the lawyer George Smyth and Arthur Smyth , Archbishop of Dublin .