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Gorst

Gorst may refer to:

  • Derek Gorst (1903–1981), British actor
  • Eldon Gorst, KCB (1861–1911), Consul-General in Egypt from 1907 to 1911
  • Ian Gorst (born 1969), the Chief Minister of Jersey
  • John Eldon Gorst PC, QC, FRS (1835–1916), British lawyer and politician
  • John Michael Gorst (1928–2010), British Conservative Party politician

Usage examples of "gorst".

The others bellowed with laughter at the sight, and to my surprise the Warlord and even Gorst himself also laughed heartily.

But on the other hand Gorst towered head and shoulder over the old man, and could no doubt crush him in a moment.

At the top Gorst had built a rough wall of loose-piled stone to keep the sheep in.

I had Gorst keep the old man in the lower room while I climbed up the ladder, ostensibly to fetch the Shan King.

Brother Gorst nodded shyly and the harsh light glinted starkly off his fangs.

Brother Gorst lay face down beside the large hole our makeshift flame-thrower had put in the roof.

She dug through her file and found the phone number for Gorst Brothers Timber.

He was quickly carted back, but with great difficulty for he was a big heavy fellow, while Gorst and Horsfield searched along the trench both ways for more Huns.

Here they split up into two parties, Gresty continuing the original direction, and Gorst turning along to the right.

Others succeeded in grasping their rifles, and Gorst received a nasty bullet wound in the shoulder, but not before he had accounted for one or two Huns with his revolver.

David Willetts resigned as Paymaster General after being criticised by the Standards and Privileges Committee, and Sir John Gorst said that the Government could no longer rely on his support as a Tory backbencher, which left his party teetering on the brink of losing its overall majority.

Major Ramsay, and no less a personage than Sir Eldon Gorst, the Adviser on police matters in the Ministry of the Interior.

And besides, I was the one who told Gorst yesterday that he was missing and that I feared foul play.

Only that very morning, at the moment of his own release from jail, his brother Bill McMahon had told him of the conversation overheard between Orlando and his mother, by Milly Gorst, the hired girl.

Arthur Balfour, Sir John Gorst, and other eminent persons who had a hand in constructing the Education Acts of 1892 and 1893, to say how far the system now in existence owes any of its features to the influence of Matthew Arnold.