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.

Career Upon his eldest brother's death on 2 September 1911, he succeeded to the earldom of Cathcart. Vera, the widow of Capt. Henry de Grey Warter of Cruckmeole in Shropshire (who was killed in the Battle of the Somme in France), (From Vera's first marriage to Capt.) Henry de Grey Warter (a son of Henry de Grey Warter), she was the mother of Dolores Warter (who married Theodore Medlam in 1929) and Henry de Gray Warter (who married "musical comedy star" Mabel Bowers Rean in 1930). "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." they were the parents of one son: and was succeeded by his son, Alan.