Melville Portal

Wikipedia Biographical Summary

"Melville Portal JP, DL (31 July 1819 – 24 January 1904)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician from Hampshire...

...Portal was awarded an M.A. degree by the University of Oxford in 1844...

...He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for North Hampshire at a by-election in April 1849, following the resignation of the Conservative MP Sir William Heathcote. He was re-elected unopposed in 1852 at a sparsely-attended hustings in Winchester, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1857 general election...

...He was appointed in December 1852 as a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire, and by 1863 he was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) for the county...

...He was nominated as High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1861 and in 1862, and was appointed to the office in 1863, when his address was given as Laverstoke House, Mitcheldever Station...

...In 1855 Portal married Lady Charlotte Elliot (died 1899), the first child of the 2nd Earl of Minto. The couple had at least four children, including Sir Gerald Herbert Portal (1858–1894), and Katherine Charlotte Portal (1866–1917). Sir Gerald was a rapidly-promoted young diplomat, whose career in Africa led to him contracting malaria, and he died of typhoid in London on 25 January 1894. An older son died in Africa in 1892 or 1893, and the third son was Alaraic William John Portal, an officer in the Royal Navy."

SOURCE: Wikipedia contributors, 'Melville Portal', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 8 October 2012, 17:45 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melville_Portal&oldid=516...> [accessed 16 November 2012]

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• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via brother Wyndham Spencer Portal by SmartCopy: Feb 22 2015, 10:57:47 UTC