George Cathcart, 5th Earl Cathcart
# George Cathcart, 5th Earl Cathcart

George Cathcart, 5th Earl Cathcart (26 June 1862 – 19 November 1927), styled Lord Greenock until 1911, was a British Army officer and peer.

## Early life

Cathcart was born on 26 June 1862. He was third of five sons born to Alan Cathcart, 3rd Earl Cathcart and the former Elizabeth Mary Crompton (1831–1902). His two elder brothers were Alan Cathcart, 4th Earl Cathcart and Lt. Hon. Charles Cathcart (who both died unmarried). His younger brothers were Capt. Hon. Reginald Cathcart (who served in the Second Boer War and was killed at the Relief of Ladysmith in South Africa) and the Hon. Archibald Cathcart. Among his sisters were Lady Cecilia Cathcart (wife of Capt. Edward Temple Rose), Lady Ida Cathcart (wife of Sir Thomas Hare, 1st Baronet), Lady Marion Cathcart, Lady Emily Cathcart, and Lady Eva Cathcart.

His mother was the eldest daughter and heiress of Sir Samuel Crompton, 1st Baronet. His paternal grandparents were the former Henrietta Mather (second daughter of Thomas Mather) and Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart, a British Army general who became Governor General of the Province of Canada and was Commander-in-Chief, Scotland and North America.

## Career

Upon his eldest brother's death on 2 September 1911, he succeeded to the earldom of Cathcart.

Cathcart was a Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own).

## Personal life

On 6 January 1919, the fifty-six year old Lord Cathcart married Vera Estelle (née Fraser) Warter (d. 1993) at Holy Trinity Church in Chelsea, London. Vera, the widow of Capt. Henry de Grey Warter of Cruckmeole in Shropshire (who was killed in the Battle of the Somme in France), was a daughter of John Fraser of Cape Town, South Africa. "She was thirty-odd years his junior and their marriage proved a mistake almost from the start. In 1921 the Earl advertised that he would no longer be responsible for her debts and in the next year he obtained a divorce, naming the Earl of Craven." Before their divorce, they were the parents of one son:

* Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart (1919–1999), who married twice, including to Marie Cathcart, Countess Cathcart.

Lord Cathcart died in a London nursing home on 19 November 1927 following an operation, and was succeeded by his son, Alan. After his death, Lady Cathcart married the wealthy shipping magnate Sir Rowland Hodge, 1st Baronet on 30 September 1930.

