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	Beilby Porteus Information
		Beilby Porteus was the son of Robert Porteus, a native of Virginia, US who had returned to England in 1720.
		Porteus' tenure as Bishop of London saw not only services of thanksgiving for English victories at the Battles of Cape St. Vincent, the Nile and Copenhagen, but the great national outpouring of sorrow at the death of Nelson in 1805, and his state funeral service in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1806.
		Bishop Porteus died at Fulham Palace in 1809 and, according to his wishes, was buried at Sundridge in Kent - a place to which he had frequently loved to retire every autumn.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Beilby_Porteus (868 words)

	Bishop Beilby Porteus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beilby Porteus was the son of Robert Porteus, a native of Virginia, US who had returned to England in 1720.
		Porteus' tenure as Bishop of London saw not only services of thanksgiving for English victories at the Battles of Cape St. Vincent, the Nile and Copenhagen, but the great national outpouring of sorrow at the death of Nelson in 1805, and his state funeral service in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1806.
		Bishop Porteus died at Fulham Palace in 1809 and, according to his wishes, was buried at Sundridge in Kent - a place to which he had frequently loved to retire every summer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bishop_Beilby_Porteus (696 words)

	Bishop Beilby Porteus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Beilby Porteus was the son of Robert Porteus, a native of (A state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War) Virginia, US who had returned to England in 1720.
		In 1776 Dr Porteus was appointed (additional info and facts about Bishop of Chester) Bishop of Chester, taking a keen interest in the affairs of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
		In 1787 Dr Porteus was translated to the (additional info and facts about bishopric of London) bishopric of London on the advice of (additional info and facts about William Pitt (the Younger)) William Pitt (the Younger), a position he continued to hold until his death in 1809.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Bi/Bishop_Beilby_Porteus.htm (614 words)

	Porteous Research Project
		As Bishop of Chester, Beilby Porteus became known as a noted abolitionist - he took a deep interest in the plight of West Indian negro slaves, preaching and campaigning actively against the slave trade and taking part in many debates in the House of Lords.
		Porteus did this, partly by encouraging debate on subjects as diverse as the slave trade, Catholic emancipation, the pay and conditions of low-paid clergy, the perceived excesses of entertainment taking place on Sundays - and by becoming a vocal supporter of Hannah More and the Clapham Sect of evangelical social reformers.
		Bishop Porteus died at Fulham Palace in 1809 and, according to his wishes, was buried at Sundridge in Kent - a place to which he had loved to retire every summer.
	porteous.org.uk /beilby_porteus.html (916 words)

	bishop
		Bishops of the Church of England still sit as peers in the House of Lords in Great Britain, as representatives of the state church.
		Bishops are especially prominent among the leadership of the Roman Catholic church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, and Anglican church.
		Bishops are generally responsible for leading a large or heavily-populated area (a diocese) and all the churches contained therein.
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	bishop - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about bishop
		Originally, bishops were chosen by the congregation, but in the Roman Catholic Church they are appointed by the pope, although in some countries, such as Spain, the political authority nominates appointees.
		Bishops are responsible for meeting to settle matters of belief or discipline; they ordain priests and administer confirmation (as well as baptism in the Orthodox Church).
		In the Methodist and Lutheran churches the bishop's role is mostly that of a supervisory official.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /bishop (268 words)

	Bishop Beilby Porteus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Educated at (The English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose) York and (additional info and facts about Ripon) Ripon, he was a classics scholar at Christ's College, (A university in England) Cambridge University, becoming a fellow in 1752.
		Beilby himself took a deep interest in the plight of (A native or inhabitant of the West Indies) West Indian negro (A person who is owned by someone) slaves, preaching and campaigning actively against the (Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries) slave trade.
		In 1788 George III had again lapsed into one of his periods of mental derangement (now diagnosed as (A genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion) Porphyria), after which there was a Service of Thanksgiving for his recovery in 1789 in (additional info and facts about St. Paul's Cathedral) St.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bishop_beilby_porteus.htm (614 words)

	Encyclopedia: Beilby Porteus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During much of the following twenty years _ a time of huge national and international political upheaval, Porteus was in a position to influence opinion in the influential circles of the Court, the government, the Georgian society.
		As far as I am aware, the only connection of Porteus to India was his speech in the House of Lords in 1792/3 when he spoke on the Bill for the renewal of the charter for the East India Company.
		As my prof who wrote the article on Porteus on a Dictionary of Church History, Porteus was a "moderate churchman in the Secker mould".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Beilby-Porteus (767 words)

	Special Collections > Porteus Library
		The library of Beilby Porteus (1731-1809), Bishop of London, housed at Fulham Palace until its deposit at the University Library in 1958.
		Beilby Porteous, The Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D., late Bishop of London; with his life / by the Rev. Robert Hodgson.
		John Addy, 'The Diary of Beilby Porteus, 1777-1809', Friends of Lambeth Palace Library: Annual Report (1977): 12-25.
	www.ull.ac.uk /historic/porteus.shtml (293 words)

	Art Fund Recent Acquisition Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Art Fund has awarded a grant of £7,039 to the Museum of Fulham Palace towards the acquisition of an unusual portrait of Bishop Porteus (1731-1809) by portrait painter John Hoppner.
		Bishop Beilby Porteus, who was Bishop of London and lived in Fulham Palace from 1787 until his death, is best remembered for his support of the Anti-Slavery Movement.
		The portrait is unusual as Bishop Porteus is shown in non-clerical dress.
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	AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: Porteus, Bishop Beilby
		Administrative/Biographical history: Beilby Porteus was born in York in 1731; his parents were Virginian colonists who had moved back to England.
		By 1762 Porteus had been appointed domestic chaplain to Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury; in 1769 he became Chaplain to King George III, and was created Bishop of Chester in 1776.
		When Porteus was appointed Bishop of London in 1787, the British overseas colonies came under his jurisdiction.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/14/1460.htm (447 words)

	Bishop Beilby Porteus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bishop Beilby Porteus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bishop Beilby Porteus - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Bishop Beilby Porteus.
		He vigorously opposed the spread of the principles of the French Revolution as well as the doctrines of Thomas Paine's Age of Reason.
		In 1788 George III had again lapsed into one of his periods of mental derangement (now diagnosed as Porphyria), after which there was a Service of Thanksgiving for his recovery in 1789 in St. Paul's Cathedral, only a year or so after Beilby Porteus came to take up the London bishopric.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Bishop-Beilby-Porteus.html (687 words)

	Bishop Beilby Porteus - TheBestLinks.com - Cambridge University, Church of England, May 8, May 13, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Bishop Beilby Porteus, Cambridge University, Church of England, May 8, May 13...
		Appointed Chaplain to the King in 1769, Beilby Porteus became Bishop of Chester in 1776 and subsequently was appointed Bishop of London in 1787.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bishop_Beilby_Porteus.html (261 words)

	bishop - definition of bishop by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
		bishop - a clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ
		suffragan, suffragan bishop - an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese
		Bishop Ulfila, Bishop Ulfilas, Bishop Wulfila, Ulfila, Ulfilas, Wulfila - a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)
	dict.thefreelibrary.com /Bishop (715 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BEILBY PORTEUS PORTEUS, BEILBY (173,18o8), bishop of London, was born at York and educated at Christs College, Cambridge, where he became fellow in 1752.
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		BISHOP BEILBY PORTEUS Rt Rev Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London (1731-1809) Photograph courtesy of Hammersmith andamp; Fulham Libraries The author...
	beilby_porteus.iqexpand.com (416 words)

	Beilby Porteus: biography and bibliography
		Beilby Porteus's interest in the colonies must be supposed to have started early, as his parents were Virginian colonists who had returned to England.
		Porteus was born at York, where he went to school, before making a promising start at Cambridge.
		Tennant, Bob, ‘Sentiment, Politics, and Empire: A Study of Beilby Porteus’s Antislavery Sermon’, in Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838, ed Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, and Sara Salih (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp.
	www.brycchancarey.com /abolition/porteus.htm (769 words)

	Beilby Porteus - LoveToKnow 1911
		BEILBY PORTEUS (1731-1808), bishop of London, was born at York and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became fellow in 1752.
		In 1776 he became bishop of Chester, and in 1787 he was translated to London.
		This page was last modified 22:59, 1 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Beilby_Porteus (177 words)

	PORTEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Date "PORTEUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791.
		"PORTEUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: pores.
		English words defined with "PORTEUS": To be beside one's self.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/PORTEUS (373 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Clapham Sect
		The group's name originates from the village of Clapham, south of London, where both Wilberforce and Thornton, the sect's two most influential leaders, resided and where many of the group's meetings were held.
		They were supported by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, who sympathised with many of their aims.
		After many decades of work both in Parliament and in general society, they and their successors saw their efforts rewarded, as England finally banned the slave trade, both in the British Isles and the Empire, and used its influence and power to eradicate legal slavery throughout the world.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Clapham_Sect (328 words)

	New England Historic Genealogical Society
		Gerald Paget abstracted the Queen Mother’s Porteus descent, and her Warner, Reade, Towneley, and Martiau ancestry (the Towneleys among “Addenda and Corrigenda”) in volume two of his mammoth compendium.
		Arguments for the lower figure, at least as regards potential provable kinsmen, are both (1) the genealogical insularity of the Tidewater gentry (i.e., very frequent cousin intermarriage) and (2) the greater difficulty, relative to New England research, of documenting southern lineages generally.
		Among other British decendants of Robert Porteus, Jr., Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington, 6th Baron Carrington (born 1919), :Leader of the House of Lords and from 1979 to 1982 British Foreign Secretary, is a great-great-grandson of Oswald Smith and Henrietta Mildred Hodgson and a third cousin of H. the Queen.
	www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/NEXUS/notable_kin_american_ancestors_and_kinsmen_via_ro_659_90403.asp?print=1 (2509 words)

	Beilby family clan - Test
		At the sale of his library the firm of Beilby, Knott, and Beilby acquired his To Which is Appended a Family Correspondence of the Eighteenth Century.
		In the Abrahamic covenant his clan and their descendants were to be James Beilby and Paul Eddy (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2001), 162, fn 3.
		Beilby: Mark and Cathy McGrath Study of the family back to 1483, contains family Bruce Family Ancestral heritage, clan tartans and family lines.
	yourpointer.com /yrpt/beilby-family-clan.html (508 words)

	Adam
		Subsequently he was ordained deacon and priest by Dr. Beilby Porteus, bishop of London.
		About the year 1801 he was appointed assistant to Dr. Abernethy Drummond of Hawthornden, titular bishop of Glasgow, whom he succeeded as minister of Blackfriars’ Wynd episcopal chapel, Edinburgh.
		After his return from Copenhagen to London, he accompanied the newly appointed bishop of Barbadoes to the West Indies in 1825, and was appointed interim pastor of the island of Tobago, where he died on the 2d July 1826.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/nation/adam.htm (3111 words)

	PORTEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Search the PORTEUS Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the PORTEUS Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named PORTEUS at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/P/PORTEUS.htm (73 words)

	Porteus.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first Porteus we know about in our family is a David Porteus who lived in Enniskillen in northern Ireland.
		After learning all he could about psychology and psychological tests, he invented one of his own, the Porteus Maze Test, which turned out to be amazingly successful in ascertaining which children could be benefited by attendance at the school.
		I can say that Bishop Beilby Porteus is tombed in St. Paul's in London.
	www.porteus.com /history/history1.html (1532 words)

	May 8th
		: Alain Rene is Sage, French novelist, 1668, Sargeau, in Brittany; Dr. Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, 1731, York; Rev William Jay, Congregationalist divine, 1769, Tisbury, Wilts.
		The bishop, though he had acted a prominent part in public affairs, lived without an enemy.
		By this name, without the affix of Allardice, was recognised, in the early part of the present century, a man whose pride and pleasure it was to exhibit the physical potentialities of human nature in their highest stretch.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/may/8.htm (1585 words)

	Nelson's State Funeral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I am researching the life of Dr Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London at the time of Nelson's death - whom you would normally expect to conduct a State Funeral.
		It's an interesting hypothesis, though, that Porteus might have specifically chosen to boycott the funeral as a result of Nelson's adultery.
		I confirmed that the Bishop of London did indeed officiate at Wellington's funeral in 1852.
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