Family and Education

b. by 1482.2

Offices Held

Sheriff, Gloucester 1503-4, 1509-10, mayor 1511-12, alderman 1516-d.; commr. subsidy 1512, 1514.3

Biography

The christian name Thomas was a popular one in the Porter family of Gloucestershire, and this Member is not to be confused with a namesake of Newent, who was the grandfather of Arthur Porter and died before 1510. Thomas Porter of Gloucester was a minor beneficiary under the will dated 1503 of Thomas Lane’s father. Otherwise, little has been discovered about his career. Between the two sessions of the Parliament, Porter and his fellow-Member John Pakington appointed the collectors for the subsidy which they had helped to grant. Porter died on 22 Mar. 1522.4

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558

Author: A. D.K. Hawkyard

Notes

• 1. E179/279/3, m. 23.
• 2. Date of birth estimated from first reference.
• 3. S. Rudder, New Hist. Glos. 115; T. D. Fosbroke, Gloucester (1819), 208; Statutes, iii. 82, 118; Gloucester Guildhall 1375, f. 28.
• 4. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. iv. 223; lxxxvii. 198; PCC 9 Holgrave; E179/279/3, m. 23; Gloucester Guildhall 1375, f. 28.