[1] He was the eldest son of Henry Lorte of Stackpole Court in the parish of St Petrox, Pembrokeshire.
[1][2] On the outbreak of the First English Civil War, Lort aided the Earl of Carbery in promoting the royalist cause in Pembrokeshire.
He eventually made submission, and after consenting to serve on the parliamentary committees for Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and Cardiganshire, he was freed from all delinquency, and restored to his estate and goods.
In March 1649 Lorte with his brother Sampson undertook to victual ships that arrived at Milford Haven or Tenby.
His second wife Joan, daughter of Humphrey Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, Glamorganshire, who later remarried, to Sir Edward Mansel.