John Porter (bishop)
Anglican bishop (1751–1819)
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John Porter (1751 – 27 July 1819) was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]
Porter was the son of Rev. Thomas Porter, perpetual curate of Northenden.[2] He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1768, graduating B.A. (5th wrangler) 1773, M.A. 1776, D.D. (per lit. reg.) 1792.[3]
He was ordained deacon on 6 June 1773 and priest on 18 December 1774 (both ordinations performed by John Hinchliffe, Bishop of Peterborough and Master of Trinity College),[4] and became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1774. He was Boyle Lecturer in 1786, and Regius Professor of Hebrew from 1790 to 1795.[3]
He was appointed Archdeacon of Llandaff in 1789.[3] Moving to Ireland as chaplain to Lord Lieutenant Earl Camden,[2] he was nominated Bishop of Killala and Achonry on 6 May 1795 and consecrated on 7 June 1795 that year. He was translated to Clogher[5] on 30 December 1797[6] and died in office on 27 July 1819.[7]
Family
On 3 December 1784, Porter married Mary Smith, daughter of Joseph Smith of Coltishall, Norfolk[3] (and niece of the Cambridge astronomer and academic John Smith). They had the following children:
- Rev. John Grey Porter (1789–1873), married Margaret Lavinia Lindsey in 1816.[8][9]
- Commodore Thomas Porter, R.N.
- Rev. Charles Porter (1796–1877), married Penelope Fleetwood in 1827.[10]
- Major-General Henry Edward Porter (1801–1871).
- Captain William Henry Porter (1802–1887), married Elizabeth Gibbs Ludlow in 1830.[11]
- Margaret Porter (died 1859), married Hugh Harris.
- Elizabeth Porter, married Lieutenant-Colonel John O'Ferrall Carmichael (son of Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Lyle Carmichael).
