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.

Gort was the son of Leopold George Prendergast Vereker and Helen Marjorie Campbell, and the grandson of the Hon.

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.

[citation needed] In 1962, Gort was a Justice of the Peace for Castletown in the Isle of Man.

The titles passed to his son, Foley Robert Standish Prendergast Vereker, 9th Viscount Gort (born 1951), who also lives on the Isle of Man.