Sir Gilbert Lort

Sir Gilbert Lort and his sister Dame Elizabeth Campbell are both buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey.

Sir Gilbert Lort

A standing monument to Sir Gilbert, put up by his sister and executed by sculptor Edward Hurst, was moved from the north transept (where it stood next to Admiral Warren's monument) in the late 19th century to the adjoining chapel of St John the Evangelist, but was greatly reduced in size. Only the tablet from it now remains on the wall of the chapel. Two cherubs from the monument are preserved in the Abbey precincts (Little Cloister and St Catherine's chapel garden). The arms of Lort were shown - "per fess azure and gules, a cross or, an escutcheon of Ulster".

The inscription reads:

Sacred to the dear memory of her loving brother SR.GILBERT LORT of Stackpoole in the county of Pembrook [Pembroke], Bart [Baronet] the onely son of Sr. JOHN LORT Bart. deceased, by the Right Honourable DAME SUSANNA one of the daughters of the Right Honourable John, Lord Holles late Earle of Clare, who changed this life for a better on the XIX day of September MDC XC VIII in the XXVIII year of his age. DAME ELIZABETH CAMPBELL widdow and relict of Sr. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL late of Calder in the Kingdom of Scotland Kt. hath dedicated this monument.

He succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1673 and died unmarried so his titles became extinct and his estates passed to his sister. He died on 19th September 1698 and was buried on 27th September, aged 28, and his grave is near to Gladstone's statue.

Dame Elizabeth Campbell

Below the Lort tablet in the chapel is a small one which reads:

Near this monument lyeth the said Dame ELIZABETH CAMPBELL. She dyed September ye 28th 1714 in the 49th year of her age.

She was the only daughter of Sir John Lort, 2nd Baronet and his wife Susanna, and married Sir Alexander Campbell of Cawdor [called Calder on the memorial] Castle in Scotland. They had a son John, whose descendant was created Earl Cawdor.

In the chapel is buried a relative of Susanna (Holles) Lort, Sir Horatio Vere (he has no marker but Sir Francis Vere his brother has an unusual monument) so that is probably why the remains of the Lort monument were moved there.

Elizabeth's gravestone in the north transept can still be read near Gladstone's statue and gives just her name and date of death. The coat of arms carved on it shows the quartered arms of Campbell of Calder, Campbell of Lockow, Lorn, Lucas and Lort.