John Prendergast Vereker (April 1822 – 27 December 1891) was an
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...
lawyer and politician. He was the
Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1863 to 1864.
John Prendergast Vereker was the second eldest son of
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 Westr ...
, from his first marriage to Hon. Maria O'Grady (1791–1854), daughter of
Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore.
He graduated from
Trinity College Dublin with a Master of Arts degree. Vereker then practiced as a barrister from 1847. He was a member of
Dublin Corporation from 1862 to 1883.
[ In 1863 he held the office of Lord Mayor of Dublin. This made Vereker the first practicing barrister to hold this office since Daniel O'Connell in 1841.][''The Solicitors’ Journal & Reporter.'' Band 7: ''1862–1863.'' London 1863, S. 34.] He was High Sheriff of Dublin in 1878.
On 21 December 1858, he married Louisa Medlicott (died 1906).
References
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1822 births
1891 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Lord Mayors of Dublin
People from Dublin (city)
High Sheriffs of Dublin City
Irish unionists
Irish barristers