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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]

POPPLE, ---; b.; in school list 1754.

Popper, Claude Norman, son of Richard Popper, merchant, and Ida May, d. of Henry Edward James Ward Gibbins of Odiham, Hants; b. 1 Oct. 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (H); left Dec. 1922; Intell. Corps in WW2 (Sgt); a coffee merchant; d. June 1993.

POPKIN, JOHN BENNETT, eldest son of Thomas Popkin, Forrest, Glamorgan, and Justina Maria, third dau. of Sir John Stepney, Bart.; b.; adm. 6 Oct 1767; in school lists 1771; St. Andrews Univ., matr. 15 Feb 1774; m. 1778 Mary, dau. of David White, Miskin, Glamorgan. [will of John Bennet Popkin, Lyme Regis, Dorset, proved PCC 23 Apr 1808]

POPHAM, STEPHEN, son of Stephen Popham, Middle Temple, London [not called to bar at MT, so attorney ? : also Deputy Bailiff, Westminster ?], and Diana Shelton, St. James’s, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1744. [will of Stephen Popham, Iver, Bucks., proved PCC 8 Jan 1770]

POPHAM, STEPHEN, fourth son of Joseph Popham, HBM Consul Tetuan, Morocco, and his first wife Mary Riggs, Waterford; b. 5 Jul 1745; adm.; KS 1759; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1763, scholar 25 Jun 1764, matr. 1764; 4th Wrangler 1767; BA 1767; MA 1774; adm. Middle Temple 14 Apr 1762, Lincoln’s Inn 28 Nov 1772; attorney; MP (I) Castlebar 1776-83; went out to India as Secretary to Sir John Day, Advocate-Gen. Bengal, 1777; arrived Madras Feb 1778, and after a quarrel with Day went into practice at Madras as an attorney; Joint Solicitor to EI Company at Madras from 14 Jun 1782; m. 1st, at Paris 5 Apr 1768 (divorced 14 Jun 1774) Ann Yate Whiteside; m. 2nd, 16 Nov 1774 Anna, dau. of Sir William Thomas, Bart.; d. at Conjeeveram, Madras 13 Jun 1795, as a result of a fall from his curricle.