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Subject: Re: Attorney General Porter
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 16:04:21 -0700

At 07:40 AM 03-06-98 EDT, you wrote:
>Searching for information about William Porter, Attorney General of the Cape
>of Good Hope who died in Belfast, Ireland, in 1880. He had a brother,
Francis
>Porter, who also lived in the Cape and was a merchant.
>
>
William Porter born 1805, died 1880. Appointed Attorney-General of Cape
Colony in 1839. Born in Ireland, studied at Trinity College in Dublin and
at the Inns of Court, London. Was admitted to the Irish Bar in 1831. He was
known as an orator and social reformer. One of his memorials is the Porter
Reformatory, the first institution of its kind in South Africa. He was also
greatly interested in education and, despite his retirement from the Cape
in 1865, became the first Chancellor of the University of the Cape of Good
Hope. His collected speeches were published 6 years after his death in
Ireland.
The above from "Southern Africa Dictionary of national biography" by Eric
Rosenthal.

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Anne Lehmkuhl: South African genealogist & publisher:
Generations: South African genealogy newsletter (since April 1997); Rainbow
Settlers (for South Africans living outside South Africa published since
May 1998).
Currently living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
http://www.islandnet.com/~lkool/
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