Melville Portal

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

Career

Portal was awarded an M.A. degree by the University of Oxford in 1844.[2] 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.[3] He was re-elected unopposed[4] in 1852[5] at a sparsely attended hustings in Winchester,[6] and retired from the House of Commons at the 1857 general election.[4]

Portal was appointed in December 1852 as a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire,[7] and by 1863 he was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) for the county.[8] He was nominated as High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1861[9][10] and in 1862,[11] and was appointed to the office in 1863,[12] when his address was given as Laverstoke House, Mitcheldever Station.[13]

Personal life

The son of John Portal of Freefolk Priors, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Drummond, in 1855 Portal married Lady Charlotte Elliot[14] (died 1899), the first child of the 2nd Earl of Minto.[15] The couple had at least four children, including Sir Gerald Herbert Portal (1858–1894), and Katherine Charlotte Portal (1866–1917).[15] 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.[14] 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.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
  2. ↑ "University Intelligence". The Times. London. 25 October 1844. pp. 7, col B.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 20967. p. 1204. 13 April 1849. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  4. 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 393. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 21345. p. 2130. 3 August 1852. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  6. ↑ "The General Election". The Times. London. 14 July 1852. p. 2.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 21390. p. 3611. 10 December 1852. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  8. ↑ "Prison Discipline And The Hampshire County Magistrates". The Times. London. 6 January 1863. pp. 9, col D.
  9. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 22565. p. 4564. 15 November 1861. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  10. ↑ "Nomination Of Sheriffs". The Times. London. 13 November 1861. pp. 6, col F.
  11. ↑ "Nomination Of Sheriffs". The Times. London. 13 November 1862. pp. 7, col F.
  12. ↑ "Sheriffs For 1863". The Times. London. 4 February 1863. pp. 6, col F.
  13. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 22704. p. 573. 3 February 1863. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  14. 1 2 3 "Death Of Sir Gerald Portal". The Times. London. 26 January 1894. pp. 3, col F.
  15. 1 2 Lundy, Darryl. "Lady Charlotte Mary Elliot". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 14 November 2010.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir William Heathcote, Bt
Charles Shaw-Lefevre		 Member of Parliament for North Hampshire
1849 – 1857
With: Charles Shaw-Lefevre		 Succeeded by
William Wither Beach
George Sclater-Booth


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