John Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort
John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (28 January 1849 – 15 August 1902) was an
Biography
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Vereker was born in 1849, the son of
He acted as British Consul at Cherbourg in 1879. Following his return to the United Kingdom, he was a Justice of the peace for County Durham and for the Isle of Wight, where his father left him the East Cowes Castle in 1895. The castle had been built by the architect John Nash as his own home, and was completed in 1800. It was inherited by the 4th Viscount Gort from his stepmother, whose first husband George Tudor had bought it as a family home.
Vereker took a great interest in scientific and political questions, especially in the religious and educational aspects of political life, and was for many years Chairman of the Durham Diocesan Church Defence Committee.[1]
He succeeded his father as the 5th Viscount Gort in 1900, already in frail health, and died in
Family
Vereker married, in 1885, Eleanor Surtees, daughter and co-heiress of
- 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 died in 1933.
See also
East Cowes Castle for more on the family history