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Arthur Porter (South African Cricketer)
Arthur Porter may refer to: *Arthur Porter (MP) (died 1559), English politician during the 16th century *Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883–1933), American art historian and medievalist *Arthur Porter (engineer) (1910–2010), British-Canadian engineer and computer pioneer * Arthur Porter (cricketer) (1914–1994), English cricketer *Arthur Porter (historian) (1924–2019), Creole professor and author * W. Arthur Porter (born 1941), American educator and businessman *Arthur Porter (physician) Arthur Thomas Porter IV (June 11, 1956 – June 30, 2015) was a Canadians, Canadian physician and hospital administrator. In February 2004, Porter was appointed to replace Hugh Scott as the Director General and CEO of the McGill University He ... (1956–2015), Canadian physician and former chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee Art Porter may refer to: * Art Porter Sr. (1934–1993), American jazz pianist * Art Porter Jr. (1961–1996), American jazz saxophonist and son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Porter (MP)
Arthur Porter (c. 1505 – 31 May 1559) was an English Member of Parliament (MP) and was granted Llanthony Secunda Priory. He was the only surviving son of Roger Porter of Newent and Alvington, Gloucestershire and was educated at Lincoln's Inn. In 1526 he was appointed escheator of Gloucestershire and the Welsh Marches. He was a J.P. for Gloucestershire from 1537 to 1547 and appointed Sheriff of Gloucestershire for 1548. He acted as Receiver for the lands of Llantony Priory (Llantony Secunda) in 1539 and 1542, and in consequence was awarded a grant of the Priory lands in 1540. He acquired Pitchcombe manor near Painswick in 1544. He entered Parliament as knight of the shire for Gloucestershire in November 1554 and afterwards served as MP for the city of Gloucester in 1555 and Aylesbury in 1559. He died in office on 31 May 1559. He married twice: firstly to Alice Arnold, the daughter of John Arnold of Churcham, Gloucestershire, with whom he had at least 12 children including Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Kingsley Porter
Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883–1933) was an American archaeologist, art historian, and medievalist. He was chair of Harvard University’s art history department, and was the first American scholar of Romanesque architecture to achieve international recognition. Porter disappeared in 1933. His most significant scholarly contributions were his revolutionary studies and insights into the spread of Romanesque sculpture. His study of Lombard architecture also remains the first in its class. He left his Cambridge mansion, Elmwood, to Harvard University, where it has served as the official residence of Harvard's president since 1970. Early life Porter was born on February 16, 1883, in Darien, Connecticut, the third son born to a wealthy family that also kept a residence in New York City. Porter prepared at the Browning School in New York City, alongside classmate John D. Rockefeller Jr. He then attended Yale University, as had his two older brothers, Louis Hopkins Porter and Blachle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Porter (engineer)
Arthur Porter (1910–2010) was a British-Canadian engineer and pioneer in computing and biomedical engineering. Porter was born in Ulverston, England, on 8 December 1910, the son of John William Porter and Mary Anne Harris. He studied at the University of Manchester where he gained undergraduate (BSc) honours in physics followed by an MSc. He went on to obtain his doctorate (PhD) at Manchester under the supervision of Douglas Hartree). His graduate work and doctoral thesis was on a differential analyser (early analog computer) constructed from Meccano parts. He spent the period from 1937 to 1939 on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This was followed by wartime research with the Admiralty Research Laboratory and the National Physical Laboratory. After the war, he was Professor of Instrument Technology at Royal Military College (1946–1949). Porter then moved to Canada where he was Head of Research at Ferranti Ltd in Toronto from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Porter (cricketer)
Arthur Porter (25 March 1914 – 20 February 1994) was an English cricketer active from 1947 to 1956 who played for Glamorgan. He was born in Clayton-le-Moors and died in Newport, Monmouthshire. He appeared in 38 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace and off breaks. He scored 1,292 runs with a highest score of 105 among two centuries and took sixteen wicket In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: * It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batsman out. ...s with a best performance of four for 25. Notes 1914 births 1994 deaths English cricketers Glamorgan cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Porter (historian)
Arthur Thomas Daniel Porter III (26 January 1924 – 26 March 2019) was a Creole professor, historian, and author. His book on the Sierra Leone Creole people, ''Creoledom: A study of the development of Freetown society'', examines their society in a way in which few books of their time period had, and it is one of the most quoted books on the Creoles. He was published in East Africa and the UK. Early life Arthur Porter was born in January 1924 in Freetown, British Sierra Leone, to Guy Hardesty Porter and Adina Porter. Guy Porter was an electrical engineer who died as a civil servant. Adelina Porter was a school teacher at the Freetown Secondary School for Girls, which was attended by Porter's sister, Iyatunde Harriet Maria Palmer (''née'' Porter). Porter attended the Cathedral School in Freetown. Background Like many Creoles, Porter was of West Indian, Jamaican Maroon, Liberated African, and Nova Scotian settler descent. His paternal grandfather was Arthur Thomas Porter I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Porter (physician)
Arthur Thomas Porter IV (June 11, 1956 – June 30, 2015) was a Canadians, Canadian physician and hospital administrator. In February 2004, Porter was appointed to replace Hugh Scott as the Director General and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, one of Canada's largest academic health centres. He left that position in December 2011. Porter also served as chair of the Canadian Security Intelligence Review Committee, which reviews the activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency. He was appointed to that committee by Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper on September 3, 2008, and along with that appointment, was made a Queen's Privy Council for Canada, privy councillor. On May 27, 2013, Porter was arrested in Panama on fraud charges, which alleged that he took part in a $22.5 million kick-back scheme related to the construction of McGill University Health Centre's new $1.3 billion hospital. The Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Porter Sr
Art Porter Sr. (8 February 1934 – 22 July 1993) was an American jazz pianist from Little Rock, Arkansas. During his musical career, he performed with the Art Porter Trio, founded in 1962, and the Art Porter Singers, founded in 1976. Although primarily playing locally, Porter played FESTAC 77, the World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture held in Nigeria in 1977, and with saxophonist son Art Porter Jr. did a European tour in 1991 that included festivals in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. Porter was also known as an educator. An alum of AM&N College (1954, BA in Music Education) and Henderson State University (1975, MS in Music Education), Porter taught at various high schools and colleges, including Parkview High School in Little Rock, Mississippi Valley College and Philander Smith College. In addition to producing several education television shows, ''The Minor Key'' and ''Porterhouse Cuts'' (the latter of which was broadcast throughout 14 states in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
