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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 ...
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.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Lord Gort and Lady Gort, with staff officers at the Staff College, Camberley, prior to the departure of Lord Gort and his staff to France, November 1939 On the outbreak of the Second World War, Gort was appointed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary ...
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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
NEW YORK — A young woman accused of selling the fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills that killed Robert De Niro’s teenage grandson warned an undercover cop not to take “more than one at a ...