Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort
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Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort, MC, KStJ (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.[1] 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.