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Author: Porter, George

Biography:

PORTER, George (1790-1848: findmypast.com)

He was baptised on 22 Aug. 1790 at St. Mary’s, Carlisle, Cumberland, the son of Mary Morgan and William Porter. Alumni Oxonienses gives his father’s status as “gent.” No matching record for the marriage of his parents has been found, only a cabinet-maker of Liverpool named William Porter who married a Mary Morgan in Cheshire in 1789 and is unlikely to be the same person. He matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1805, aged 15 (BA 1809, MA 1812, Fellow and Tutor 1815-19, Junior Bursar 1825). After his ordination as priest on 1 Jan. 1815 he was stipendiary curate at Basildon, Oxfordshire, for a short time, then (1816-30) Curate of Marsh Baldon and Toot Baldon, Oxfordshire, and finally Vicar of Monk Sherborne, north Hampshire, which was in the gift of the College (1830-48). He did not marry and his only other publication besides the collections of devotional poems listed here was a volume in the same vein entitled Hymns and Sacred Songs from the Holy Scriptures, arranged in Metre (1840). He died at Monk Sherborne on 8 Apr. 1848 and was buried there on 13 Apr. (findmypast.com 1 Nov. 2023; Alumni Oxonienses; CCEd 1 Nov. 2023; OJ 15 Apr. 1848; GM July 1848, 101)

 

Books written (2):

Oxford/ London: R. Pearson/ Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823
Oxford/ London: R. Pearson/ Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823