New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-12
! enormous fortune. married, en- secondes no.es the
third Lord Forester.
LORD GoRT NOW IN NEW YORK.

LORD GORT NOW IN NEW WORK.
Lord Core. who arrived in New York on wednes-
day last on board the Majestic is the owner Of
East Cowes Castle. familiar to every American
visitor to the Isle Of Wight presenting as it does
q most attractive picture viewed from the Solent
rising. with its battemented walls In the midst Of
rchiy wooded domain In spite of its medieval
appearance. which is enhanced bv the ivy covering
its walls 1t was built only about n hundred years
ago by the well known architect Nash the protege
OF the prince regent and the designer of the
poruons OF Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace
as residence for himself The Lord (zort Of his
DAY was so delighted with the place that he en-
gagged Nash to build a replica of it for him on his
property on the banks OF Tough Cooter an ex-
pense of nearly $4,000 and by a strange turn in
the wheels of fortune the castle on Tough Cooter
has long since passed out the possession of the
Lords Gort while Nash's castle at Cowes has
become their principal home.
Lord Gort is the head OF the houses Of Prender
CAST and of Vereker. The former was founded by
Maurice. Lord of Prendergast in Pembrokeshre.
who was one Of the principal Norman knights asso-
ciated with Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke IN the
invasion of Ireland, and eventually became more
Irish than the Irish, giving up his castle Prem
oergast, in Wales, to the knights of St John of
Jerusalem. and contenng himself with his estates
IN the Emerald Isle His of the sigma
tories or Magma Charta; his grandson. Gerald de
Prendergast, founded the Abbey of Enniscorthy.
The Prendergasts despoiled of their estates by
oliver Cromwell the occasion of his invasion of
Ireland. and the male line became extinct through
the death of Sir Thomas Prendergast, Postmaster
General Of Ireland, in the eighteenth century. He
was succeeded by his sisters eldest son. John. who
became the first Viscount Gort and dying childless
was succeeded in his honors and in his estates by
the son Of his sister, who had married Thomas
Vereker
This nephew of his Charles vereker who as
surned the name and of Prendergast, in addi-
ton to his own. drove the French out of ireland in
1888 General Hurnbert and his French troops had
landed In Mayo. had routed the British at Castle
bar. and were their way inland when the second
Lord Gort. who then merely Colonel Charles
Fereker, at the head of a small detachment of only
three hundred men. blocked his way gave battle
to him at Colony. General Humbert was led by
the audacity Of Colonel Nerekers attack believe
that the main body of the British army was at
hand, and, acting this erroneous belief, inaugu-
rated retreat, which resulted flight and disaster
In fact thanks to this, all danger of French con-
quest of Ireland a Vereker, who had
been badly wounded Just before the close of the
engagement received the thanks of the Irish Parlia
ment and authority from the Crown to adopt the
name COLONY as his family motto, in commemo-
ration of his victory.
The Verekers. let add, hail from the Neither
lands. and the founder of the Irish branch the
line was of those Flemish gentlemen of birth
who took service under Charles against Cromwell,
were sorely used by the latter. and who on the
restoration received grants of land from Charles II
in recognition their devotion the cause of his
9ather- The present Lord Ciort may be said
from sporting stock. especially through his mother,
for the widowed Lady Gort is daughter of Robert
Smith Surtees the famous sportsman and author of
the immoral "Jorrocks," of ''HandIey Cross" and
of Mr.. Sponge's Sporting Tour Indirectly too.
he responsible for another famous figure in lit
erature. For ii "Jorrocils" which first sug-
gested the idea of Pickwick to Charles Dickens and
TO his publishers, Chapman. Hall & Seymour. Lady
Gort is rich in her right, and she only
two boys Lord Gort is a matrimonial catch. not
only by reason of his title and of his beautiful
try seat at Cowes but also from a financial point
of view. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY