Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount Gort

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.

[2] After Cambridge, he travelled to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1911 and established himself as a contractor and later a major real estate holder in the city.

By 1923 they had settled in England but he maintained his links with Winnipeg, visiting often over the years to attend to affairs with his numerous real estate holdings, which included the Viscount Gort Hotel on Portage Avenue, and living in the city for extended periods.

[citation needed] The castle is today a tourist attraction, with an Irish Victorian-themed folk park which was created around it.

In 1973, two years before his death, Gort and his wife donated a major collection of 18th and 19th-century paintings to the Winnipeg Art Gallery.