Edward Porritt

Background

Porritt, Edward was born on December 8, 1860 in Bury, Lancashire, England. Son of John and Elizabeth (Longshaw) Porritt.

Education

Educated People's College, Warrington, England.

Career

Entered journalism on Warrington Guardian. Reporter Liverpool Daily Mail, 1881. Chief reporter, London Echo, 1882-1884.

Reporter and special correspondent Globe-Democrat, Saint Louis, 1884-1885.

In gallery of House of Commons, London, 1886-1892. London editor Manchester Examiner, 1888-1892.

Settled at Farmington, Connecticut, as history writer and contributor to various publications, also correspondent newspapers, writing on political subjects and giving personal attention and investigation to industrial developments in the United States and Canada. In 1902 visited South Africa to investigate trade and economics conditions after the war.

Corresponding with Canadian Tariff Revision Commission, 1905-1906.

Lecturer at Harvard, 1908-1909, 1909-1910, University of California, summer session, 1910, Johns Hopkins University, 1916. Author: Barriers Against Democracy in the British Electoral System, 1911. The Evolution of the Dominion of Canada—Its Government and Its Politics, 1918.

And others

Editor: Sell’s Dictionary of World’s Press (London), 1889-1912. Home: Hartford, Connecticut

Achievements

• Edward Porritt has been listed as a noteworthy journalist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Darwen, England, Annie Gertrude Webb, September 3, 1891.

Father:

John Porritt

Mother:

Elizabeth (Longshaw) Porritt

Spouse:

Darwen