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The son of a merchant, he was born in London in 1792.
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George Porter
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He became head of the statistical department of the Board of Trade. In 1832, Knight declined an invitation from George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland to digest for the Board of Trade the information contained in parliamentary reports and papers. But he recommended Porter for the task.
In 1834 the statistical department of the Board of Trade was permanently established under his supervision.
Porter was a liberal in politics, and a free trader. He was one of the promoters, in 1834, of the Statistical Society, of which he became vice-president and treasurer in 1841.
And he took an interest in the proceedings of section F of the British Association. Porter died on 3 September 1852 at Tunbridge Wells, and was buried there.
The immediate cause of his death was a sting on the knee, which caused mortification.
There was an engraved portrait of him in the rooms of the Statistical Society, Adelphi Terrace, London. She died on 13 September 1862 at West Hill, Wandsworth, aged 71. She published:
‘Conversations on Arithmetic,’ London, 1835.
New edition, with the title ‘Rational Arithmetic,’ &c., London, 1852.
‘On Infant Schools for the Upper and Middle Classes’ (Central Society of Education, second publication, 1838). ‘The Expediency and the Means of elevating the Profession of the Educator in public estimation,’ 1839.
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In 1840 Porter was appointed senior member of the railway department of the Board and in 1841 George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon obtained for him the position of joint secretary of the Board in succession to John MacGregor. He was also an honorary member of the Statistical Society of Ulster, corresponding member of the Institute of France, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
