** 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.

* Standish Prendergast Vereker, 4th Viscount Gort ( 1819 – 1900 )

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

* Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort ( 1888 – 1975 )

* Foley Robert Standish Prendergast Vereker, 9th Viscount Gort ( b. 1951 )

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

Production was started at a former munitions factory at Standish near Wigan in 1946 before the new factory at Kitt Green Wigan opened in 1959.

The idea of constructing such a canal was first considered by Miles Standish of the Plymouth Colony in 1623, and Pilgrims scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet and the Scusset rivers for potential routes.

Myles Standish was born in Lancaster

Myles Standish ( c. 1584 – October 3, 1656 ; sometimes spelled Miles Standish ) was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony.

However, Standish was one of the forty-one signers of the Mayflower Compact which states the colony's purpose was to advance the Christian faith for the Glory of God.

One of the best known depictions of Standish in popular culture was the 1858 book, The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Standish was associated for most of his life with a congregation of Protestants known as Separatists.

The places named by Standish, with the exception of the Isle of Man, are all in Lancashire, England, leading some to conclude that Standish was born in Lancashire — possibly in the vicinity of Chorley where a branch of the Standish family owned a manor known as Duxbury Hall.

... was a gentleman, born in Lancashire, and was heir apparent unto a great estate of lands and livings, surreptitiously detained from him ; his great grandfather being a second or younger brother from the house of Standish.

Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury | Sir Horatio Vere was the commander of English troops in Holland during the Siege of Ostend, under whom Standish likely served. The circumstances of Standish's early military career in Holland ( the " low countries " to which Morton referred ) are vague at best.

Some historians, such as Nathaniel Philbrick, refer to Standish as a " mercenary ," suggesting that he was a hired soldier of fortune seeking opportunity in Holland.

Others, such as historian Justin Winsor, claim that Standish received a lieutenant's commission in the English army and was subsequently promoted to captain in Holland.

Jeremy Bangs, a leading scholar of Pilgrim history, noted that Standish likely served under Sir Horatio Vere, an English general who had recruited soldiers in both Lancashire and the Isle of Man, among other places, and who led the English troops in Holland at the time Standish was there.

The subsequent Twelve Years ' Truce ( 1609 – 1621 ) between Spain and the Dutch Republic would have ended Standish's service, although scholars are uncertain if Standish was still in active service.

Standish first appears in the written record in 1620 when, living in Leiden, Holland, he was hired by the Pilgrims to act as their advisor on military matters.

Standish, having lived in Leiden with his wife Rose, was apparently already known to the Pilgrims.

Myles Standish was the fourth to sign the compact.

While the Mayflower was anchored off Cape Cod, Standish urged the colony's leaders to allow him to take a party ashore to find a suitable place for settlement.

I give unto my son & heire apparent Alexander Standish all my lands as heire apparent by lawfull decent in Ormskirke Borscouge Wrightington Maudsley Newburrow Crowston and in the Isle of man and given to mee as Right heire by lawfull decent but Surruptuously detained from mee My great Grandfather being a 2cond or younger brother from the house of Standish of Standish.

He was brother to Hayes O ' Grady, who became an Admiral in the Royal Navy, and uncle to the Irish antiquarian Standish Hayes O ' Grady.

Standish and Langtree were part of the Penwortham barony in the 12th century and between 1150 and 1164, Richard Bussel, lord of Penwortham gave them to his brother in law Richard Spileman.

The closest of his London friends is his mentor, Lady Laura Standish, the daughter of the prominent Whig politician Lord Brentford.

Standish O ' Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore, PC ( 1766 – 21 April 1840 ), from Cahir Guillamore, County Limerick, served as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer for Ireland for a number of years.

Stamer Street, developed around 1880, was named after Sir William Stamer, Lord Mayor in 1809 and 1819 ( a relative of his, Standish O ' Grady, was killed in a duel in 1830 by Captain Smith from Portobello Barracks, who received twelve months for manslaughter ).

She described in her autobiography three subsequent long-term relationships with men: first Standish Booker, a leading bridge player, then Wash Carr ( Walter Copley Carr ) of the News of the World, and lastly Harold Lever ( Lord Lever ), a senior Labour Party politician.

The First Quadrille at Almack's: a French print supposedly representing Lady Jersey, Lady Anne Smith | Lady Worcester, Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort | Lord Worcester and Ranald George Macdonald | Clanronald Macdonald, though Gronow says it was danced by Lady Jersey, Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue | Lady Susan Ryder, Miss Montgomery and Lady Harriet Butler, with the Count St Aldegonde, Mr Montagu, Mr Montgomery and Mr Charles Standish.

From earliest times the area had a sparse and scattered population eking out a living from the common and wood and farmlands owned by the church including Burscough Priory, Cockersand Abbey and the Knights Hospitallers until the Dissolution of the Monasteries from 1536 and that of the local gentry included Sir Adam Banastre, Lord of the Manor in 1288 and the Standish, Catterall, Stanley, Rigby, Hulton, Dicconson and Hesketh families-the last being the last Lord of the Manor in 1798.

In 1693 Dame Margaret Standish and her son Sir Thomas petitioned the House of Lords against Lord Willoughby for the redemption of a mortgage on the manor and lead mines.

* General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, grandson of the 3rd Viscount Gort

That denouement plus Alden's engagement with rivaling Indians who plotted to kill newcomers is told elaborately in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish.

According to Standish, " Anyone who is acquainted with the facts and has any amount of logical reasoning can not avoid the conclusion that neither Cook, nor Peary, nor Byrd reached the North Pole ; and they all knew it.

The five students — Allison Reynolds ( Ally Sheedy ), Andrew Clark ( Emilio Estevez ), John Bender ( Judd Nelson ), Brian Johnson ( Anthony Michael Hall ), and Claire Standish ( Molly Ringwald )— who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats or sleep by the antagonistic assistant principal, Richard Vernon ( Paul Gleason ), supervising them.

The cause is later revealed to be down to a flammable liquid raining on Standish, who mistook it for the actual rain at the time, and a spark from a rigged bullet in his gun.

Possibly the best source, however brief, on Standish's origins and early life is a short passage recorded by Nathaniel Morton, secretary of Plymouth Colony, who wrote in his New England's Memorial, published in 1669, that Standish:

Standish himself was one of the very few who did not fall ill and William Bradford ( soon to be governor of Plymouth Colony ) credited Standish with comforting many and being a source of strength to those who suffered.

They were guided by Hobbamock who quickly befriended Standish.

One of the warriors threatening Wessagusset was Wituwamat, a Neponset who had earlier insulted and threatened Standish.

Pastor John Robinson, who was still in Leiden, criticized Standish for his brutality.

When the Pequot War loomed in 1637, Standish was appointed to a committee to raise a company of 30 men, but it was Holmes who led the company in the field.

" Standish, who owned the town's first business ( a sawmill ), had the name changed back.

During 1442 a local noble named Sir Rowland Standish ( a relative of Myles Standish, Mayflower passenger and military commander of Plymouth Colony ), who had fought at Agincourt, brought back to Chorley the skull and bones of Saint Lawrence and interred them at an altar at the parish church.

One of these was Captain Myles Standish, a soldier who had been hired by the settlers to coordinate the defense of the colony.

* Peter Standish, a character from the play Berkeley Square written by John Balderston about a Yankee who lives in a house on the square and is transported back to the 18th century.

Land belonging to the St. Nicholas chantry in Standish Church was acquired by William Heaton, who died in 1619.

In October 1942, he was transferred to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts and reunited with Chaplains Fox, Poling and Washington, who were classmates at Harvard.