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...
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Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort, MC, KStJ (12 February 1888 – 21 May 1975) was an Anglo-Irish peer, connoisseur and collector...
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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...
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John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (28 January 1849 – 15 August 1902) was an Anglo-Irish peer, landowner and Army officer. Vereker was born...
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Gort (1742–1817) Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort (1768–1842) John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1790–1865) Standish Prendergast Vereker,...
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John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1 July 1790 – 20 October 1865), was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Gort was the son of Charles Vereker...
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Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort PC (Ire) (1768 – 11 November 1842), known as Charles Vereker until 1817, was an Irish soldier and politician. Gort was...
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Vereker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort (1768–1842), Irish soldier and politician Colin Leopold...
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Sir John Michael Medlicott Vereker, KCB, KStJ, FRSA (born 9 August 1944) is a former British civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary for International...
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Mayor of Dublin from 1863 to 1864. John Prendergast Vereker was the second eldest son of John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort, from his first marriage to Hon...
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Governor Vereker may refer to: John Vereker (civil servant) (born 1944), Governor and Commander in Chief of Bermuda from 2002 to 2007 John Vereker, 6th Viscount...
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John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort (1742 – 23 May 1817) was an Irish politician. Born John Smyth, Gort was the son of Charles Smyth, Member of...
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eventually came into the ownership of the Gort family, when the Viscount's son, John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort, acquired it by marrying Elizabeth Tudor...
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Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort (1742 – 1817), (Lord Gort). John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946), (Lord Gort) a World War II British Expeditionary...
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illustrations of the places he worked. Vereker was born at Whitehall, London, the second son of the fourth Viscount Gort, and attended Burney's Academy, a...
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near Gort in south County Galway, Ireland. The castle was designed by English architect John Nash for Colonel Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort. Construction...
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Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle (redirect from Philip John Algernon Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle)
De L'Isle, and his wife Jacqueline (née Vereker), a daughter of Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort. He was educated at Tabley House, Mons Officer...
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Eleanor, who married John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort in 1885. Their first son John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC was succeeded in 1946...
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Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton. His mother Corinna Vereker, daughter of John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort, died when he was born. He followed his brother to...
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Georgina Prendergast Vereker, the third daughter of Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort. Hamilton was their first son and inherited his father's properties...
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another son died shortly after birth. Children Captain Maximilian Edward Vereker Wakefield (born 22 February 1967), a racing driver, married 1994 Lucinda...
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Force (BEF), General, later Field Marshal, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, did not get along well together. Gort disliked Hore-Belisha for his colourful...
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initiated the Battle of France. First Expeditionary Force General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort 5th Infantry Division (Major-General Harold Franklyn) I Corps...
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ten divisions in three corps under the command of General John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort. Working with the BEF were the Belgian Army and the French...
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Thomas Smyth and John Prendergast Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort, both of whom followed their father into politics. Their grandson Charles Vereker, son of their...
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Elizabeth Maria (née Vereker) Astell, widow of William Harvey Astell and fourth daughter of Standish Vereker, 4th Viscount Gort and the former Hon. Caroline...
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1928–1931: Sir John Chancellor 1931–1938: Sir Arthur Wauchope 1938–1944: Sir Harold MacMichael 1944–1945: John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort 1945–1948: Sir...
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two of Britain's most senior WWII leaders, Duff Cooper and John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort. Kingsland managed to rescue them from French headquarters...
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6th Earl of Abingdon (1808–1884) British peer and politician John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946) British military officer and commander of the British...
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Jacqueline Corrine Yvonne Vereker (20 October 1914 – 15 November 1962), daughter of Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, on 8 June 1940. The couple...
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