Beilby Porteus (or Porteous; 8 May 1731 – 13 May 1809), successively Bishop of Chester and of London, was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist...

Porteus is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Beilby Porteus (1731–1809), Church of England bishop Hugh Gordon Porteus (1906–1993), art...

soldier and politician Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock (1849–1912), British soldier, politician, Governor of Madras Beilby Porteus or Porteous (1731–1809)...

1980s. His great-grandfather was the Reverend Beilby Porteus Oakes, a descendant of the bishop Beilby Porteus. The family belonged to the English landed...

Sir John Finch Sir Thomas Baines John Tayloe III Frederick Cornwallis Beilby Porteus William Paley Charles Darwin Jagdish Chandra Bose Jan Smuts Lord Louis...

village of Whichford, Warwickshire. His grandfather Beilby Porteus Oakes was a descendant of Beilby Porteus. He married Annette Christine Swire; they had three...

and submission to the slave master were instructions handed down by Beilby Porteus (then Bishop of London), who stated: "prepare a short form of public...

relatively modern. The village had an Anglican chapel in 1806, built by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, who lived in nearby Sundridge; St Mary's church was...

set up in Bishop Howley's Dining Room and Bishop Porteus's Library (named after Bishop Beilby Porteus, 1731–1809), in the early 19th century part of the...

Westminster) presented the Quaker petition to parliament. Also in 1783, Beilby Porteus, Bishop of Chester, issued a call to the Church of England to cease...