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Vereker
Vereker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort (1768–1842), Irish soldier and politician * Colin Leopold Prendergast Vereker, 8th Viscount Gort (1916–1995), peer and Isle of Man politician *Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker (1850-1900), Royal Navy officer and hydrographic surveyor * Hugh Vereker, secretive novelist in Henry James's '' The Figure in the Carpet'' (1896) * Gordon Vereker (1889–1976), British diplomat *John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1790–1865), peer and politician * John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849–1902), peer *John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946), peer and senior British Army officer * John Michael Medlicott Vereker (born 1944), British civil servant and Governor of Bermuda * Julian Charles Prendergast Vereker (1945–2000), British designer of hi-fi audio equipment *Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort (1888–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Vereker
Sir George Gordon Medlicott Vereker (11 December 1889 – 14 March 1976) was a British diplomat. Roving diplomat Vereker was born in County Galway, Ireland to a prominent and wealthy Protestant "Ascendancy" family, the son of Sir George Medlicott Vereker and Frances Gore Vereker (nee Manders). He was usually known as Gordon instead of George. Vereker was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Vereker won the Épée title at the 1913 British Fencing Championships. Vereker served in the British Army in World War One where he awarded the Military Cross and was mentioned in dispatches for heroism under fire. In 1919, he joined the Foreign Office to begin his career as a diplomat. From 1919 to 1923, he was stationed at the British high commission in Cairo, Egypt. From 1923 to 1927, he was stationed at the British legation in Beijing, China and in 1925 was involved in an international incident when he visited with the American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews Urga (modern Ula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, (10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946) was a senior British Army officer. As a young officer during the First World War, he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of the Canal du Nord. During the 1930s he served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (the professional head of the British Army). He is best known for commanding the British Expeditionary Force that was sent to France in the first year of the Second World War, only to be evacuated from Dunkirk the following year. Gort later served as Governor of Gibraltar and Malta, and High Commissioner for Palestine and Transjordan. Early life and family Vereker was born in London. His mother was Eleanor, Viscountess Gort née Surtees (1857–1933; later Eleanor Benson), who was a daughter of the writer Robert Smith Surtees. Vereker's father was John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (1849–1902). J. S. S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Vereker
Julian Charles Prendergast Vereker Order of the British Empire, MBE (7 May 1945 – 14 January 2000) was an English self-taught designer of audio equipment, and the founder of Naim Audio, Naim Audio Ltd. of Salisbury, Wiltshire. He was an influential figure in the manufacture and retail of British high fidelity audio equipment in the 1970s and 1980s. Biography Family and education Julian Vereker was born in Oxford, England. He was the great-great grandson of the 3rd Viscount Gort. His great-grandfather had been Consul at Cherbourg and his grandfather a naval commander; his father Charles became Professor of Political Theory at Durham University. Vereker therefore grew up in a lively academic family, which did not prevent him from becoming a rebellious adolescent in the 1960s. Though requiring four attempts to pass O Level mathematics, he developed a passion for engineering, left Bryanston School at 16. He attended technical college in Liverpool, followed by the College of Aero and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker
Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker (21 June 1850 - 24 October 1900) was a Royal Navy Officer and hydrographic surveyor. He is particularly noted as an artist who produced navigational views and 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 Naval preparatory school in Gosport, Hampshire. He entered the Royal Navy in 1863, and joined the surveying branch in 1868 as a midshipman on HMS ''Nassau'', surveying in the Strait of Magellan. His illustration of ''Nassau'' in the Strait was used as the frontispiece of the published account of the natural history of the voyage. Vereker was promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1870, and moved with ''Nassau'' to the China Station, where he worked on the survey of the Sulu Archipelago. In the following year he observed a volcanic eruption on the island of Camiguin in the Philippines, and made an illustration of the event. In 1872 he was in charg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort
Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort PC (Ire) (1768 – 11 November 1842), known as Charles Vereker until 1817, was an Irish soldier and politician. Background Gort was the son of Thomas Vereker by Juliana, daughter of Charles Smyth and sister of John Prendergast-Smyth, 1st Viscount Gort and was born in Ireland in 1768. He served a short time in the navy, and was afterwards appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Limerick militia. Political career Gort represented Limerick City in the Irish House of Commons from 1790 until the Act of Union in 1801. On 5 September 1798 at Collooney he checked the advance of a French force, led by General Humbert, that had landed at Killala Bay, County Sligo whereupon they were defeated at Ballinamuck, where he was wounded. In 1802 he was elected to the British House of Commons for Limerick, a seat he held until 1817, and served as a Lord of the Treasury between 1807 and 1812. He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1809 and, having succeeded his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Vereker, 8th Viscount Gort
Colin Leopold Prendergast "Kim" Vereker, 8th Viscount Gort, JP (21 June 1916 – 6 April 1995) was an Irish peer and member of the House of Keys. Life Gort was the son of Leopold George Prendergast Vereker and Helen Marjorie Campbell, and the grandson of the Hon. Foley Charles Prendergast Vereker, the second son of the fourth Viscount. He was educated at Sevenoaks School in Kent. He joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and fought in World War II, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander and being mentioned in dispatches.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, p. 1606. He was a director of Royal Skandia IoM, Invesco Fund Managers IoM, Euronav IoM and Eurofish IoM. In 1962, Gort was a Justice of the Peace for Castletown in the Isle of Man. Between 1966 and 1971 he was a Member of the House of Keys (MHK), the lower house of the Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort
John Gage Prendergast Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort (28 January 1849 – 15 August 1902) was an Anglo-Irish peer, landowner and Army officer. Biography Vereker was born in 1849, the son of Standish Vereker, 4th Viscount Gort (1819–1900) by his wife Caroline Harriet Gage, daughter of the 4th Viscount Gage. He was educated at Harrow, and joined the Royal Artillery, where he advanced to captain in the 4th Brigade, South Irish Division. 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 edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort
Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort, (12 February 1888 – 21 May 1975) was an Anglo-Irish peer, connoisseur and collector of fine art, antiques, and objets d'art, whose seat was at Hamsterley Hall, County Durham. He was appointed High Sheriff of Durham in 1934. He was the brother of John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, and inherited that title on the death of Lord Gort without male issue in 1946. He was succeeded in turn by his cousin, Colin Vereker. Early life Gort was born in Sausthorpe, Lincolnshire, and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After Cambridge, he travelled to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1911 and established himself as a contractor and later a major real estate holder in the city. Military service Gort served in the British Army during the First World War, with the rank of lieutenant. He was wounded three times in the war and earned a Military Cross. Gort married Bessy Surtees, daughter of Aubone Alfred Surtees, on 11 June 1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort
John Prendergast Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort (1 July 1790 – 20 October 1865), was an Irish peer and politician. Background and education Gort was the son of Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort, and his first wife Jane, daughter of Ralph Westropp and Mary Johnson. He was educated at Harrow. Political career Gort succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Limerick in 1817 and held the seat until 1820. Between 1831 and 1832 he served as Mayor of Limerick. From June 1865 until his death in October of that year, he sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer. Family Lord Gort married firstly the Hon. Maria, daughter of Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore and Katherine Waller, on 13 December 1814. They had eleven children who survived infancy, six sons and five daughters, including: *Standish, the eldest surviving son, (1819-1900) * John Prendergast Vereker (1822-1891) who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1863, *Emily, who married John Francis Basset, of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vereker (civil Servant)
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 Development (1994-2002) and Governor of Bermuda (2002-2007). Family and education Sir John Vereker is the younger son of Commander Charles William Medlicott Vereker (1903-1995) and Marjorie Hughes Whatley (d. 1984) and is a descendant of the second Viscount Gort. He was educated at Marlborough College, from which he won a scholarship to the University of Keele, graduating in 1967. He married in 1971 and has two children with his wife, Judy. Career UK civil service After university, Vereker joined the newly formed Ministry of Overseas Development. He moved to the World Bank, working under Robert McNamara from 1969 to 1972. After returning to the Ministry of Overseas Development, he was appointed private secretary to three Labour Cabinet Ministers - Reg Prentice, Frank Judd and Judith Hart. In 1980, he was invited by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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