Viscount Gort
Viscount Gort , of Gort in the County of Galway , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Ireland .
Award and subordinate titles
The title was bestowed on January 22, 1816, to John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Baron Kiltarton . He was a longtime member of the Irish House of Commons and Governor of Galway County. Already on May 15, 1810, he had been raised to Baron Kiltarton , of Gort in the County of Galway, also in the Peerage of Ireland . The barony has since been listed as a subordinate title to the Viscount.
Since Prendergast-Smyth was unmarried, the two titles were bestowed with the special note that, in the absence of male descendants of his own, they could be passed on to the son of his sister Juliana Verecker and his male descendants.
Other titles
The 6th Viscount served as a British officer in both world wars and rose to the rank of Field Marshal . He was promoted to Viscount Gort , of Hamsterley in the County of Durham on February 8, 1946 . This title belonged to the Peerage of the United Kingdom and was associated with the right to a seat in the House of Lords . When he died just seven weeks later, that title became void as he left no sons. His other titles fell to his younger brother as the 7th Viscount.
List of Viscounts Gort (1816)
- John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort (1742-1817)
- Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort (1768–1842)
- John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1790–1865)
- Standish Vereker, 4th Viscount Gort (1819–1900)
- John Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849–1902)
- John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort , 1st Viscount Gort (1886–1946)
- Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort (1888–1975)
- Colin Vereker, 8th Viscount Gort (1916–1995)
- Foley Vereker, 9th Viscount Gort (* 1951)
The heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current viscount, Hon. Robert Foley Prendergast Vereker (* 1993).
Web links
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Gort, Viscount (I, 1816) at Cracroft's Peerage