Porter, Charles Rowley Davidson, son of Charles Porter MD, MOH St Marylebone, and his first wife Jennie Leslie, d. of W. R. Chichester-McMillan of Belfast; b. 2 Jan. 1908; adm. Sept. 1921 (A); left Dec. 1925; Middx Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1932; practised at Stanmore, Middx, retd 1974; m. 29 July 1934 Daphne Mary, d. of Murray McMullen of Harrow Weald; d. 10 Dec. 1998.
PORTER, ---; b.; adm. 26 Sep 1768; in school list 1771.
PORTER, ---; b.; at school 1665-6 (Busby’s Account Book).
PORTEN, STANIER JAMES, son of Sir Stanier Porten, Kt, Under Secretary of State and Commissioner of Customs, and Mary, dau. of James Wybault, Engineer in Ordinary to the Ordnance, and Governor of St. John’s, Newfoundland; b. 1779; adm. 7 May 1791; in school lists 1795, 1797; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 Jun 1798; BA 1801; MA 1807; ordained deacon 1803, priest 1804; Curate, Barnes, Surrey 1803, Charlwood, Surrey 1813; Rector of Charlwood, Surrey, from 1850; m. Hannah Saltren Willett; d. 18 Nov 1854.
Porten, Catherine; daughter of James Porten, Putney, Surrey, merchant, Lieut.-Col. Blue Militia, City of London, and Mary Allen, Putney, Surrey ; b. 2 Dec 1705 ; Dame of a boarding house in College Street 1748-62 ; her nephew Edward Gibbon (adm. Jan 1747/8, qv) was the first of twenty-seven boarders recorded for her in the period for which boarding data is available, her last recorded boarder for this period being adm. Jan 1753 ; the first occupant of the Centre House on the Terrace 1763-71 (succeeded there by Mrs.Ottey) ; d. unm. in Newman Street, Oxford Street 23 Apr 1786 (will proved PCC 29 Apr 1786). Sister of Sir Stanier Porten, Kt., Under Secretary, Secretary of State’s Department, and aunt of Edward Gibbon (qv) and of Stanier James Porten (qv).
Popplewell, Geoffrey Douglas, son of Herbert Alfred Popplewell, of Sidcup, Kent, by Norah Mabel, daughter of the Rev. George Smith, Vicar of St. Paul's, Bunhill Row, London; b. Aug. 7, 1904; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1918; left (with Triplett) July 1923; Brasenose Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1923; B.A. 1926; M.A. 1962; Tanganyika Administrative Service, cadet 1927, asst. district officer May 1929; district officer 1940; senior D.O. 1950; deputy provincial commissioner 1955; acting prov. comm. 1955; retired 1957; author of several geographical, geological and ethnological articles on the Tanganyika Territory; m. 1st, 1931, Marjorie Helen, daughter of Kenneth Macdonald, of lnvernesshire; d. 1945; 2nd, 1947, Isabel Diana Elisabeth, daughter of Maj. Philip Mathews, O.B.E., commissioner of police, British Honduras; d. 18 July 1994.
POPPLE, HENRY, eldest son of Henry Popple, Whitehall, Westminster, Under-Treasurer to Queen Caroline, and Anne, dau. of Sir Joseph Edmund Moore, Kt, Herts. [check]; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 30 Mar 1739 (IGI, sic); adm. (aged 11) Apr 1746; left 1750; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1750/1-2; lic. to m. 3 Jun 1766 Jane Budd, Teynham, Kent. [IGI also records Henry Strickland John Popple, son of Henry Popple, and Anne ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 29 Oct 1737]. [will of Henry Popple, Monmouth, proved PCC 27 Apr 1775]