George Richardson Porter
1792–1852
Statistician and economist. Actively interested in the statistics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Head of the statistical department of the Board of Trade, 1834; joint secretary of the Board of Trade, 1847–52. FRS 1838.
Sources
DNB
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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