Porter, ENDYMION (1587-1649). 

 English royalist. Member of a 

 Gloucestershire family with Spanish 

 connexions, he 

 was brought 

 up in Spain. 

 After return- 

 ing to England 

 he became 

 groom of the 

 bedchamber to 

 Charles, prince 

 of Wales. In 

 Endymion Porter, 1622 he was 

 English royalist sen t to Spain 

 on a diplomatic mission, accom- 

 panied Prince Charles there in 

 the following year, and in 1628, 

 and again about ten years later, 

 was entrusted with other missions 

 to the Spanish court. A loyal 

 servant of King Charles, he voted 

 against Strafford's attainder, and 

 was expelled from Parliament. He 

 left England in 1645, and lived in 

 France and the Netherlands until 

 1649, when he returned to London, 

 where he died, being buried in S. 

 Martin - in - the - Fields, Aug. 20, 

 1649. He had acquired a consider- 

 able fortune, and was well known 

 as a patron of art and letters ; 

 Herrick and other writers addressed 

 poems to him. See Life and Letters, 

 D. Townshend, 1897. 



Porter, FITZ JOHN (1822-1901)- 

 American soldier. Born at Ports- 

 mouth, New Hampshire, Aug. 31, 

 1822, and edu- 

 cated at the 

 Military Acad- 

 emy of West 

 Point, to which 

 he returned as 

 a n instructor 

 after distin- 

 guished service 

 in the Mexican 

 War, he rose 

 during the 

 Civil War to the rank of brevet 

 brigadier-general. He was uni- 

 formly successful until after the 

 second battle of Bull Run, when 

 he was accused of having con- 

 tributed to the disaster by dis- 

 obeying Pope's orders, and was 

 dismissed. Reinstated in 1886, he 

 died May 21, 1901. 



Porter, GENE STRATTON (1868- 

 1924^. American author. Born in 

 Indiana, she became the wife of 

 Charles D a r- 

 win Porter in 

 1886. She was 

 a keen natu- 

 ralist and 

 student of bird 

 life, and be- 

 came known 

 as an able 

 p h otographer 



G ene Stratton Porter, f animal and 

 American author bird life. She 



Fitz John Porter, 

 American soldier 



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has written several works on natu- 

 ral history, but is best known by 

 her novels, most of which deal with 

 out-of-door life in a fresh and cheer- 

 ful tone, which has given them 

 wide circulation. They include 

 The Song of the Cardinal, 1902 ; 

 Freckles, 1904; A Girl of the 

 Limberlost, 1909; Laddie, 1913; 

 Michael O'Halloran, 1915 ; Morn- 

 ing Face, 1916 ; A Daughter of the 

 Land. 1918. She died Dec. 7, 1924. 

 Porter, HORACE (1837-1921). 

 American soldier and diplomat. 

 Born at Huntingdon, Pennsyl- 



PORTFOLIO 



the Continent, and in America to 

 this day has retained its hold upon 

 the affections of a certain circle of 

 readers. Among her other works 

 are.The Pastor's Fireside, 1815, and 

 Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative 

 of his Shipwrecks and consequent 

 discovery of certain islands in the 

 Caribbean Sea, 1831. She died at 

 f Bristol, May 24, 1850. 



Port Erin. Watering-place of 

 the Isle of Man. It stands on the 

 S.W. coast, 15 m. by rly. from 

 Douglas at the head of a land- 

 locked inlet, Port Erin Bay. There 



Port Erin, Isle of Man. Town and bay from the south, looking towards Bradda Head 



Frith 



Horace Porte?, 

 American soldier 



vania, April 15, 1837, he entered 

 the U.S. army as 2nd lieutenant, 

 1861, becoming lieut. -colonel and 

 aid e-d e-camp 

 to General 

 Grant, 1864, 

 and brevet 

 major-general, 



1865. He 

 rendered d i s- 

 tinguished ser- 

 vices in the 

 Civil War, not- 

 ably at Chick- 

 amauga, W i 1- 



derness, and Newmarket Heights, 

 became assistant secretary for war, 



1866, and was executive secretary 

 to President Grant, 1869-73. He 

 acted as U.S. ambassador in 

 Paris from 1897-1905, receiving the 

 Grand Cross of the Legion of 

 Honour, 1904, and died on May 

 29, 1921. He published his remin- 

 iscences of the Civil War, Cam- 

 paigning with Grant, 1897. 



Porter, JANE (1776-1850). 

 British novelist. Born in Durham 

 and brought up in Edinburgh, 

 she achieved 

 great success 

 in 1803 with 

 her first novel, 

 Thaddeus o f 

 Warsaw, a 

 story of Polish 

 exile. This 

 was followed, 

 in 1810, by 

 The Scottish 

 Ch'efs, the 

 hero of which 



After 0. Barlow is the Scottish 



patriot, William Wallace. Despite 

 its artificiality the book won im- 

 mense popularity, and at home, on 



is a harbour, but the breakwater 

 is now a ruin. The place has golf 

 links and good bathing, while the 

 beautiful scenery around is another 

 attraction. Here are a fish 

 hatchery and a marine biological 

 station. Pop. 3,200. 



Port Essington. Harbour of 

 Northern Territory, Australia. On 

 Cobiirg peninsula, it was founded 

 as a penal settlement in 1831, 

 but was abandoned in 1850 as 

 unhealthy. 



Port Fairy. Town and harbour 

 of Victoria, Australia, 187 m. by 

 rail W.S.W. of Melbourne. It is a 

 centre of a trade in wool and grain. 

 Pop. 2,000. 



Port Florence. Port of Kenya 

 Colony, E. Africa, otherwise known 

 as Kisumu (q.v. ). 



Portfolio (Lat. portare, to carry ; 

 folium, leaf). Case for carrying 

 papers. It is practically a large 

 book cover with a flexible back, 

 and fastened with a spring or 

 ribbons, in which drawings, prints, 

 music, or other loose papers can be 

 carried without folding. The word 

 is also applied to the office of 

 a minister of state, presumably 

 because the minister is responsible 

 for all the documents appertaining 

 to his department. Minister with- 

 out portfolio is a term used to de- 

 scribe a Cabinet minister who has 

 no departmental duties. Such were 

 not uncommon in France and other 

 countries, and during the Great 

 War they were appointed in the 

 United Kingdom. ' The outcry 

 against the appointment of Dr. C. 

 Addison to a position of this kind 

 led to a promise that the practice 

 should cease, as it did on his re- 

 signation, which took place in 1921. 



