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Thomas Porter (bef. 1636 - 1680)

Maj. Thomas Porter
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Husband of — married 1656 [location unknown]
Husband of — married 1659 [location unknown]
Husband of — married about 1661 [location unknown]
Husband of — married 11 Nov 1665 in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, Englandmap
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Died after age 43 [location unknown]
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Biography

Porter pedigree at p. 11 of LIFE & LETTERS OF ENDYMION PORTER (1897), by Dorothea Townshend, shows Anne Canning as one of three wives of Thomas Porter, son of Endymion Porter. "Thomas Porter . . . married as his third wife his cousin, Anne Canning of Foxcote." [LIFE & LETTERS, at p. 242]

Thomas Porter, son of Endymion Porter, married three times. Istly to Lady Anne Blount, daughter of Mountjoy Blount, Earl of Newport; 2ndly to Roberta Colepepper (Culpepper); and 3rdly to Anne Canning. Thomas Porter was christened on 28 January 1636 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster (London). In 1667, in a foolish duel, 'Tom' Porter killed his friend Sir Henry Belasyse, and was obliged to flee the country.

"[Sir Henry] Belasyse was mortally wounded after a drunken quarrel with a friend at the house of Sir Robert Carr, and buried on 16 Aug. [1667] at St. Giles in the Fields." Paula Watson, in HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT ("Sir Henry Belasyse MP"). The friend was Thomas Porter, son of the celebrated courtier Endymion Porter.

John Heneage Jesse, in LONDON: ITS CELEBRATED CHARACTERS AND REMARKABLE PLACES (1871), at Vol. 1 p. 355 has an account of the events at Sir Robert Carr's house in Covent Garden, which led to Tom Porter's foolish slaying of his great friend Sir Henry Belasyse.

"Roberta Anna [Culpeper] was married in 1659 to Mr. Thomas Porter, younger son of the well-known Endymion Porter, and died in 1661. . . Her marriage to Mr. Porter, whose record seems to have been remarkably villainous, was denied by her brother [Col. Thomas Culpeper]. . ."

"On 26 March [1656], {Thomas] Porter killed a soldier named Thomas Salkeld in Covent Garden, probably in a duel."

On 24 Feb. 1655, Tom Porter abducted Lady Anne Blount, daughter of Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport.

July 8, 1678. "The Bill [in the House of Lords] proposes to enable George Porter, son of Thomas Porter and Lady Anne, daughter of Mountjoy, Earl of Newport, to sell Newport House, in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, though he is still a minor, that house being unfit for his habitation. [Read 1st this day, and rejected on Second Reading. L.J. XIII. 275, 279.]"

Sources

  • Porter entries for children of Endymion Porter and his wife Olive, in the Parish Register, St. Martin in the Fields (London)
  • Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley, by Robert E C Waters, page 148
  • THE MEMOIRS OF ANN, LADY FANSHAWE, by Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe (1907)
  • dclodriscoll.co.uk/index.php?title=Culpeper_%28I%29 (broken link as per Dec 2022)

Dorothea Townshend gives the following as the children of Edmund Porter by his wife Angela (Porter) Porter: ...... 2. Thomas (d. 1637) ....

  • LIFE & LETTERS OF ENDYMION PORTER, by D. Townshend (1897)
  • HMC Reports, Vol. 9 (1883), p. 123




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Porter-6423 and Porter-6700 appear to represent the same person because: Thomas Porter, son of Endymion Porter and Olivia Boteler; married Anne Canning.
posted by James Canning

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