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Porten, Catherine, 1705-1786
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1705-1786
History
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).
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.