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Unimpressed by Gort's qualities for command, War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha described Gort as: "utterly brainless and unable to grasp the simplest problem". [44] Gort dismissed his subordinates' critiques of the Allies ' Plan D , including his former friend Alan Brooke 's correct prediction that it would allow the Wehrmacht to outflank the ...
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 (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.
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 ...
Alexander Ortiz, a 21-year-old charged with murder, was attacked by his alleged victim's uncle and another man in an Albuquerque, New Mexico courtroom.
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 ...
One suspect answered an online ad on a site known to aid prostitution, according to charging papers.
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