James Porter: Letters to him 1872-1900
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Porter, James 1827-1900
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Porter, James, Sir, 1710-1776
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Sir James Porter (1710-1776) was a British diplomat. In 1741, he joined the staff of the English embassy to Austria, in Vienna, and in 1747 became British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople, a position he held till 1762. Porter then became British minister in Brussels in 1763, and was knighted several months later. In 1765, he resigned his post and, retiring to England, became a fellow of the Royal Society and published three papers on astronomy and earthquak...
