PORTER, John (c.1604-52), of Margeretting, Essex.

Family and Education

b. c. 1604, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of John Porter (d. bef. 1645) of Lamberhurst, Kent, and Anne, da. of Josias Calmady of Wembury, Devon.Vis. Kent. 1619-21 (Harl. Soc. xlii), 155; Al. Ox.; Vis. Devon 1620 (Harl. Soc. vi), 129; PROB11/192/372. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 23 June 1621 (‘aged 17’);Al. Ox. I. Temple, 29 Oct. 1622.I. Temple database. m. 11 July 1633, Mary, da. of Sir John Bramston, l.c.j., 4s. 3da.St Clement Danes, Westminster, par. reg.; Autobiography of Sir John Bramston ed. P. Braybrooke (Cam. Soc. 1st ser. xxxii) pp. xviii, 25-6; PROB11/231/152. bur. 9 Dec. 1652 9 Dec. 1652.CITR ii. 364.

Offices Held

Legal: called, I. Temple 28 Nov. 1630; bencher, 31 Oct. 1648 – d.; jt. steward, readers’ dinners, 1649–d.CITR ii. 283, 287, 288, 291, 293, 296, 299, 301, 302; Masters of the Bench of the Hon. Soc. of IT (1883), 34.

Civic: recorder, Maldon 1635–45.Essex RO, D/B 3/1/20, ff. 48–146v.

: of Margeretting, Essex.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PORTER, John (c.1604-52), of Margeretting, Essex.

Will

2 Dec. 1652, pr. 5 May 1653.PROB11/231/152.

Estates

owned properties in Bell Yard, St Dunstan’s-in-the-West, London, and land at Roxwell and Margeretting, Essex 1652.PROB11/231/152.

Oxford 1644

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