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  • Henry Porter (died June 1599) was an English dramatist who is known for one surviving play, The Two Angry Women of Abington, and for the manner of his.
  • Henry Porter was a regular columnist for the Observer and now writes about European power and politics for The Hive site in the US.
  • Henry Porter is the author of The Two Angry Women of Abington, a remarkably innovative comedy of the late sixteenth century.

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    Henry Porter (playwright)

    16th-century English playwright

    For other people named Henry Porter, see Henry Porter (disambiguation).

    Henry Porter (died June 1599) was an English dramatist who is known for one surviving play, The Two Angry Women of Abington, and for the manner of his death: he was stabbed by another playwright.

    Life

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    PORTER, Henry (by 1501-55/56), of Fletchamstead and Coventry, Warws.

    Family and Education

    b. by 1501, yr. s. of John Porter of Coventry; bro. of Baldwin. prob. unm.1

    Offices Held

    Steward, Coventry by 1553.2

    Biography

    Little has come to light about Henry Porter. Like his brother Baldwin, he may have received a legal education, for the plaintiff in a chancery suit brought against him as steward of the mayor’s court described him as ‘learned in the law’. According to the certificate of musters taken in 1522, he was then a tenant in Smithford Street ward, Coventry. In July 1524 he obtained a 40-year lease of the manor and tithes of Sherborne, Warwickshire, from the Knights of St. John and it may thus well have been he who (then said to be resident in London) assisted Sir George Throckmorton five years later in ejecting Martin Dowcra from the commandery of Balsall. (Throckmorton’s son John was to be Porter’s fellow-Member in the Parliament of 1555.) In 1537 and 1539 Porter acqu

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    William Henry Porter (writer)

    American minister and author

    William Henry Porter (Sept 19, 1817-May 26, 1861) was an American minister and author.[1][2][3]

    He was born in Rye, New Hampshire, Sept 19, 1817, and was one of the eighteen children of Rev Huntington Porter, formerly pastor of the church in that place. After a preliminary course of study in Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, he entered Yale College in 1837, with his twin brother, Charles Henry Porter, who died after completing his Sophomore year. He graduated in 1841.

    He studied Theology one year in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, one year in the Theological Department of Yale College, and a few months at Lynn, Massachusetts, under the instruction of his father. In the Spring of 1844 he was licensed to preach On October 19, 1845 he was ordained as minister of a Presbyterian church in Litchfield, New Hampshire, where he remained as pastor until he was separated f