Major-General Henry Edward Porter
(1801-1871)

Volume 1, page 19, sitting number 79.

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Major-General Henry Edward Porter appears on the 1861 census, living with his brother, William Porter, two years his junior, at Buckerell in Devon. For his profession, he gave 'Major-General in Her Majesty's Service,' and he gave Ireland as his place of birth, as did his brother. Major-General Porter was sixty years old and he had never married.

General Henry Edward Porter died, aged 70, on 8 April 1871 at Hembury Fort, the seat of his brother near Honiton in Devon. He left an estate valued at £14,000.

[From an album compiled by Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton, Surrey. The daughter of George and Harriet Vesey, she was baptised at Long Ditton on 4 July 1842. She was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey (1818-1891). She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of souls.' The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]