On the death of John Prendergast-Smyth in the following year, the Gort viscountcy, plus the barony, passed to the Vereker family according to the special remainder.

* John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort ( 1742 – 1817 )

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1859 – 1865

Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, ( later 1st Earl of St Vincent ) and Horatio Nelson ( later 1st Viscount Nelson ) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.

In July 1815 he married his former sister-in-law Harriet, daughter of John Douglas, and widow of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton.

In July 1815 he married Harriet, daughter of John Douglas, and widow of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton, his first wife's sister-in-law.

An initial Jacobite rising under John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee ( Bonnie Dundee ) defeated William's forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, but Dundee was slain in the fighting, and the army was soon defeated at the Battle of Dunkeld.

* 2012 – John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott ( b. 1924 )

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

* 1782 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, British statesman ( d. 1859 )

* 1678 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician ( d. 1751 )

Image: 10thViscountKilmorey. jpg | Portrait of John Needham, 10th Viscount Kilmorey, ( c. 1768 ), Tate

* Herbert John Gladstone ( 1854 – 1930 ), MP and Viscount Gladstone.

* October 18 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1784 )

* Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British Field Marshal ( b. 1886 )

* January 28 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1782 )

* November 1 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1859 )

** John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, British politician and editor ( b. 1838 )

* January 27 – John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, English statesman ( d. 1875 )

* January 18 – British foreign secretary Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, sends ships to blockade the port of Piraeus, ostensibly as a result of the Don Pacifico affair.

* August 31 – UK: Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, becomes Prime Minister of the UK, following the death of George Canning.

** 3 September 1944 – 21 November 1945 John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort ( 1886 – 1946 )

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 British and Anglo-Irish soldier.

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John was later ennobled as the first Viscount Gort.

His attitude alienated seasoned campaigners such as Field Marshals John Dill and Lord Gort, the latter of whom, it was reported, could not bear to be in the same room with the Minister.

John Prendergast Smyth had already been created Baron Kiltarton of Gort, in the County of Galway, also in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1810.

* John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort ( 1790 – 1865 )

* John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort ( 1849 – 1902 )

* John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort ( 1886 – 1946 )

* John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 1st and last Viscount Gort ( 1886 – 1946 )

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* John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort ( 1886-1946 )

# REDIRECT John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort

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