Constituency Dates
Gloucester 15151E179/279/3, m. 23.
Family and Education
b. by 1482.Date of birth estimated from first reference.
Offices Held

Sheriff, Gloucester 1503 – 04, 1509 – 10, mayor 1511 – 12, alderman 1516 – d.; commr. subsidy 1512, 1514.S. Rudder, New Hist. Glos. 115; T. D. Fosbroke, Gloucester (1819), 208; Statutes, iii. 82, 118; Gloucester Guildhall 1375, f. 28.

Address
Main residence: Gloucester.
biography text

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. 1522.2Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. iv. 223; lxxxvii. 198; PCC 9 Holgrave; E179/279/3, m. 23; Gloucester Guildhall 1375, f. 28.

Author
A.D.K.H.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Notes
  • 1. E179/279/3, m. 23.
  • 2. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. iv. 223; lxxxvii. 198; PCC 9 Holgrave; E179/279/3, m. 23; Gloucester Guildhall 1375, f. 28.