PORTEOUS IN THE CHURCH
While researching the Porteous/Porteus family through the centuries, it has been striking to see the unusual number who have entered the ministry, including the noted Dr. Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and abolitionist who fought against the slave trade (1731–1809).
I list below the family members we have encountered so far who have been churchmen and women, both ordained and lay, and those who have served overseas on the mission field.
In addition, it has been interesting to note that there are many other Porteous/Porteus family members (not listed here) who have held positions of responsibility in their church.
In many cases precise dates of birth and death are unknown, so only an approximate timeframe is given – usually the recorded date(s) of minstry. At the time of writing more research is ongoing.
| Dates/timeframe | Name | ||
| 1550 | Rev Sir William PORTEOUS | Vicar of Kilbucho, Skirling, Biggar and Broughton, Peeblesshire | |
| 1701–38 | Rev James PORTEOUS, DD | Minister, Monivaird, Perthshire | |
| 1732–75 | Rev John PORTEOUS | Minister of the parish of Kilmuir-Easter, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland | |
| 1735–54 | Rev Robert PORTEUS | Rector, Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire | |
| d | 1791 | Rev William Lee PORTEUS | Rector, Parish of Listrumgrarh, County Leitrim, Ireland |
| 1731–1809 | Rt Rev Dr Beilby PORTEUS, DD | Chaplain to the King, Bishop of Chester, Lord Bishop of London | |
| 1735–1812 | Rev Dr William PORTEOUS | Presbytery of Auchterarder, Parish of Whitburn, Linlithgowshire – Pastor, Wynd Church, Glasgow | |
| ca 1750 | Rev William PORTEOUS | Minister, Rafford, Moray (near Inverness), Scotland | |
| 1745–1813 | Rev William PORTEOUS | Vicar of Kilbucho, later the united parish of Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho, Peeblesshire | |
| 1760-1835 | Rev William PORTEUS | Curate, Devenish, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, 1784–91; Cleenish 1788–1831; Rector, Boho 1831–35 | |
| 1783–1861 | Mary PORTEOUS | Itinerant lay preacher, Primitive Methodist Church, Ripon (1828, 1829); Carlisle (1830–33); Hexham (1833–5); North Shields (1836–8); Sunderland (1838); Durham (1839) | |
| 1802–76 | Rev James PORTEOUS | Minister, Prestonkirk, Taprain, East Linton, East Lothian | |
| 1808–96 | Canon Beilby PORTEUS | Vicar of Edenhall, Cumbria | |
| 1812–95 | Rev John PORTEOUS | First minister, Knox Presbyterian Church, St Catherine's, Ontario | |
| 1819 | Rev J PORTEOUS | Minister, Township of Kingston, Ontario, Canada | |
| 1820 | Rev James PORTEOUS | Pastor, Abbey Place Relief Chapel, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire | |
| 1822–91 | Rev James Moir PORTEOUS | Minister, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, author of God's Treasure House in Scotland | |
| 1829 | Rev M PORTEOUS | Minister, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire | |
| b | 1816–96 | Rev John PORTEOUS | Minister, Port Dalhousie, Ontario |
| 1830–1916 | Rev David PORTEOUS | Minister, Free Methodist Church, Box Hill, Melbourne, Australia 1850 – Ringwood Church; Home Missionary, New Zealand West Coast, 1866 | |
| 1832 | Rev James PORTEOUS | Minister, James Square, Edinburgh | |
| 1832–97 | Rev George PORTEOUS | St Andrews Church, Wolfe Island, Kingston, Ontario | |
| 1839–1907 | Rev Thomas PORTEUS | Minister, Walsingham, Norfolk in 1871 | |
| 1841 | Rev John PORTIS | Vicar, Little Leigh, Essex, England | |
| 1844 | Rev James PORTEOUS | Minister, Free Church, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland | |
| 1850 | Rev William PORTEOUS | St. Paul's Church, Spittal, Northumberland, England | |
| 1857 | Rev Thomas Binning PORTEOUS | Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| c | 1860 | Rev T PORTEOUS | Harrismith, South Africa |
| 1863–74 | Rev Dr GB PORTEOUS | Author, On The Pulpit And Stage, Or Churches And Theatres And Players And Preachers, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA | |
| 1864 | Rev GB PORTEUS | Minister of the Glasgow Society, editor of The Progressionist (article in Intellectual Repository and New Jerusalem magazine) | |
| 1865–69 | Rev William Pim PORTEUS | Pastor, Plymouth Congregational Church, Fountain Park Church, Grande Prairie; Calvary Presbyterian Church, Carr, St Louis, Missouri | |
| 1866 | James William PORTEOUS | Methodist local preacher, Stockton, County Durham | |
| 1867–74 | Rev George Bain PORTEOUS | Curate, Burley, Leeds, Yorkshire 1867–69; Emmanuel Church, Camberwell, Middlesex 1869–70; St Andrew's, Stockwell, Surrey 1870–71; Minister, Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, London 1871 | |
| 1789–1870 | Rev James PORTEOUS | Minister, East United Presbyterian Congregation, Coldstream, Scotland, d 1870 (obituary in The United Presbyterian Magazine) | |
| 1870 | Rev William PORTEOUS | Chosen to preside in the East United Presbyterian Congregation session during the above vacancy | |
| 1873 | Rev D PORTEOUS | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | |
| 1874 | Rev W PORTEOUS | Minister, Spittal United Presbyterian Church, Berwickshire | |
| 1874 | Rev Dr PORTEOUS | Pastor, All Souls' Church, Brooklyn, drowned 1875 | |
| 1876–1948 | Canon Thomas Cruddas PORTEUS, MA, BD, FRHistS | Author of Duxbury Hall, History of a Famous Estate, son of Thomas Porteus above, father of Wilfred Beilby Porteus below | |
| 1883 | Rev John PORTEOUS, MA, BD | Paisley, Lanarkshire, Scotland | |
| 1883–1954 | Rev Garnet Vere PORTUS | Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia; Sydney, 1911; University of Sydney, 1918; d Adelaide, 1954 | |
| 1888–1900 | Rev George A PORTEOUS | Minister, Dundas, Ontario | |
| 1894–1907 | Rev David John PORTEOUS | Minister, Kirk of Calder, Mid Calder, West Lothian – Port Glasgow | |
| 1889–98 | Rev Matthew John PORTEUS, BA | Curate, Ardagh, Co Longford, Ireland 1889–90; Kinawley, Co Fermanagh 1890–93; Inishmagrath, Co Leitrim 1893–97; Surrogate, Diocese of Kilmore and Chaplain, Manorhamilton Workhouse, 1898 | |
| 1898 | Rev Joseph PORTEUS | ||
| 1898–2003 | Rev Prof Norman W PORTEOUS | Theologian, writer on Old Testament issues, member of panel of translators, New English Bible | |
| 1900 | Rev Charles Frederick PORTEUS | ||
| c | 1900 | Marjorie PORTEOUS | Missionary, China |
| c | 1900 | Hilda PORTEOUS | Missionary, India |
| 1904 | Gladstone PORTEOUS | Missionary, Kweichow, Szechwan and East Yunnan, China | |
| 1904 | Rev Robert W PORTEOUS | Missionary, Yichun, Jianxi Province, China | |
| 1909 | Dr William James PORTEOUS | Missionary, Shahabad and Jagadhri, Punjab, India | |
| 1867–1908 | James Ferguson PORTEOUS | Minister, Yorkshire | |
| 1903 | Rev RJ PORTEOUS | Christian Vegetarian Association | |
| 1910 | Rev Mr PORTEUS | Curate, Church of Ireland, Church Street, Belturbet, County Cavan, Ireland | |
| b | 1910 | Rev Matthew Thomas PORTEUS | Vicar, West Haddon with Winwick 1956–73 |
| 1910–59 | Rev Wilfred Beilby PORTEUS | Minister, Wigan, Lancashire – St Thomas, Garstang, Blackburn, Lancashire | |
| 1912 | Canon Alan Cruddas PORTEUS | Hon Canon, Newcastle Cathedral, Tyne and Wear, England 1972–79 | |
| 1920 | Sister Mollie PORTEOUS | Hammond Island, Torres Strait; Daly River, Northern Territory, Australia | |
| c | 1920–21 | Rev Joseph PORTEUS | Vicar, Cockerton 1934–52, Bishop Middleham 1952–67 |
| 1924 | Rev Stewart Wallace PORTEOUS | Minister, United Church of Canada, British Columbia | |
| c | 1925 | Rev Charles Christopher PORTEUS | Curate and Sacrist, All Saints Cathedral, Wakefield 1962–65, Curate-in-charge, St David's of Scotland, Edinburgh 1965–71, Priest in charge, Prestonpans Diocese, Edinburgh 1971 |
| c | 1917 | Rev John PORTEOUS | Paisley, Scotland; from 1927 Chairman of the Technical College, Abbotsinch, Paisley, Scotland |
| c | 1928 | Rev PORTEOUS | The Apostolic Faith Church, Zion Tabrnacle Apostolic Church, Kokomo, N. Indiana, US |
| c | 1925 | Rev James Michael PORTEUS | Vicar, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London 1974–86; Tucson, Arizona, USA 1986 |
| c | 1925 | Rev John Clive PORTHOUSE | Vicar, St Andrew, Sidcup, Kent 1968–74; Rural Dean, Beckenham, Kent 1980–86; Vicar, St Peter with Christ Church and St Matthew, Southborough 1986 |
| c | 1925 | Canon Eric John PORTEUS | Sub-Dean, Woolwich 1974–77; Rector, Woolwich St Mary with St Michael 1977–79; Hon Canon, Chelmsford Cathedral 1986 |
| c | 1925 | Rev Michael Stanley PORTEOUS | Team Vicar, Moulsecoomb, Chichester 1985–88; Rector, West Blatchington 1988 |
| c | 1925 | Rev Roger Gordon Hargreaves PORTHOUSE | Rector, Frettenham with Stanninghall, Norfolk 1975–81, Spixworth with Crostwick, Norfolk 1975–81, Vicar, Hailsham, Sussex 1981–91 |
| c | 1925 | Rev Gilbert PORTEOUS | United Reformed Church, Sheldon, Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
| c | 1950 | Rev Victor Iain PORTEUS | |
| c | 1950–91 | Rev Robert John Norman PORTEOUS | Incumbent, Ardtrea with Desertcreat, Ireland 1979–83, Annaghmore 1983 |
| 1914–2002 | Canon Lawrence William PORTEOUS, LTh | Canon Emeritus, Diocese of Wellington, Anglican Church in New Zealand | |
| c | 1955–2009 | Rev PORTEOUS | Vicar, St Mary's Church, Ponteland, Northumberland, England |
| c | 1956 | Rev Dr James Kirk PORTEOUS | Minister, Church of Scotland, St John's Church, Cupar, Fife, Scotland; Ordained in 1944, Presbytery of London; Army chaplain in the Far East; Logiealmond, near Crieff, 1948; Presbyterian chaplain to Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perth and Kinross, Scotland |
| b | 1960 | Peter James PORTEOUS | Priest, Servite Fathers, Los Angeles, California, USA – works with street children |
| 1977–81 | Rt Rev Morgan PORTEUS | Sometime Bishop of Connecticut, Episcopal Church of United States of America | |
| c | 1980s | Rev PORTEOUS | Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, West Sussex, England |
| 1944–85 | Rev Chester A PORTEOUS | Braintree, Massachusetts | |
| c | 1986 | Rev Michael PORTEOUS | Vicar, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, West Sussex, England |
| 1992 | Rev Chris PORTEOUS | Minister, St Andrew's Church (the English Kirk), Prestonpans, East Lothian | |
| c | 1992 | Rev Michael James PORTEOUS | Pastor, Greenlane Christian Centre, Auckland, New Zealand |
| bef | 1995 | Rev Skipp PORTEOUS | Formerly Pentecostal minister |
| 1999 | Rev Joan (Cottrell) PORTEUS | Minister, Episcopal Church of United States of America and wife of the above Morgan Porteus | |
| 2000 | Rev Jean PORTEOUS | Minister, United Church, Lynn (near Brockville), Ontario | |
| 2001 | Very Rev Christopher M PORTEUS | Minister, St Phillip's Episcopal Church, Maryland | |
| 2001 | Rev Beverly Lugrin PORTEUS | Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Elkton, Maryland and wife of the above Christopher Porteus | |
| 2001 | Rev J Michael PORTEUS | Rector, St Columba, Portree, Isle of Skye | |
| 2001 | Rev James Moir PORTEUS | Elder, New Testament Presbyterian Church, Aberdeen | |
| 2001 | Ed PORTEUS | Florida District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, Florida | |
| 2001 | Bruce Edward PORTEOUS | United Church of God, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| 2001 | Rev Canon Norman PORTEUS | Rector, Derryloran Parish Church, Presbyterian Church of Ireland | |
| 2002 | Rev Dr George PORTICE | Senior Pastor, University Presbyterian Church, Rochester Hills, Michigan | |
| 2002 | Most Rev Julian Charles PORTEOUS, DD, VG | Bishop of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
| c | 2003 | Rev Michael PORTEOUS | Christ Church, Bangkok, Thailand |
| c | 2003 | Rev Rod PORTEOUS | The Reforming Alliance, Australia |
| c | 2010 | Pastor Mike PORTEOUS | Greenlane Christian Centre, Auckland, New Zealand |
| c | 2010 | Rev Michael PORTEUS | Paknampran, Thailand |
| The above list has been compiled from information gathered from a variety of sources, much of it supplied in personal correspondence, and from postings on Internet bulletin boards, and its reliability cannot necessarily be fully guaranteed. I am aware that there may be some duplication, but have attempted to verify each entry.
Family historians are advised to check the accuracy of all names and dates for themselves. Wherever possible, the author will be willing to give further details of sources of information. Please notify any corrections or omissions to Bruce Porteous at the Porteous Research Project. Any information about the emigration of Porteous/Porteus families (regardless of spelling) will be gratefully received. |
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