Married. Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant, 35, former Davis Cupper; and Marie Cleveland, 35, no tennis player; in Atlanta. Bitsy took his bride and three rackets on a honeymoon to Florida and Bermuda.

Married. Louise Dickinson Rich, 42, author of We Took to the Woods, and James Barnett, 62, whose business was getting them cut down (a retired lumber dealer); both for the third time; in Rumford, Me.

Married. Joe E. Lewis, 43, cabaret comedian, and Martha Stewart, 24, cinema starlet; both for the first time; inMiami Beach.

Married. George Abbott, 56, Broadway playwright-producer-director, and Mary Sinclair, 28, dress designer; both for the second time; in Upper Montclair, N.J.

Divorced. Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, errant great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; by Lenore Lemmon, 22, Manhattan cafe character; after ten days of marriage, 4 1/2 years of separation, no children; in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Field Marshal Viscount Gort (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Ve-reker), 59, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, commander of the ill-fated 1940 British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium; after an operation; in London. A wearer of the Old School. Tie but a tough professional soldier, he won the Victoria Cross in World War I for directing from a stretcher an attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing of 1942. A soldier on the Dunkirk beach recalled the brash bravery of the B.E.F. Commander: "Capless, his head cocked, he watched the dive bombers. Then he dashed toward a machine gun mounted on a tripod, and single-handed took them on."

Died. Martin L. Davey, 61. who left a million-dollar tree-surgery business to become Democratic Governor of Ohio (1935-39) because "I get a thrill out of it"; of coronary thrombosis; in Kent. Ohio. His administration, marked by protracted wranglings with New Dealers over pension politics, ended in his own whopping defeat by Republican John Bricker.

Died. Noah Beery, 63, veteran villain of stage & screen, elder brother of Cinemactor Wallace Beery; after a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. George Washington, 75, Belgian-born inventor of soluble G. Washington coffee, spare-time keeper of a private zoo; in Mendham, N.J.

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