John Porter (bishop)

John Porter, DD was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]

Porter was born in Cheshire and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He became Fellow of Trinity in 1774, in which year he was also ordained priest. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge from 1790 to 1795.

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[3] on 30 December 1797[4] and died in office on 27 July 1819.[5]

His son, Reverend John Grey Porter (1789–1871) married Margaret Lavinia Lindsey in 1816..[6]

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 350–351. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
2. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. v. Pace – Spyers, (1953.) p162
3. "The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 83" London, F. Jeffries, 1798
4. Clogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. p 22: Enniskille; R. H. Ritchie; 1929
5. The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, August 04, 1819; Issue 15145. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
6. Lunney, Linde (2009). "Porter, Margaret Lavinia)". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Religious titles
Preceded by John Law	Bishop of Killala and Achonry 1795–1797	Succeeded by Joseph Stock
Preceded by William Foster	Bishop of Clogher 1797–1819	Succeeded by Lord John Beresford