Albert Lavington Porter (20 January 1864 –14 December 1937) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
Porter was born at Croydon in January 1864. He was educated at Marlborough College, [1] before matriculating to St John's College,Cambridge. [2] Being resident at Bath in Somerset,Porter represented Somerset in first-class cricket in 1883,making appearances against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's and Hampshire at Southampton. [3] Porter took holy orders in 1888 when he was ordained as a deacon at Winchester Cathedral. Later that year he was appointed a priest at Guildford,before becoming curate at Fareham from 1888 to 1898. [2] While undertaking his ecclesiastical duties at Fareham,Porter made two appearances in first-class cricket. The first came in 1890 against for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present team against the touring Australians at Portsmouth,with his second appearance coming in the 1895 County Championship against Derbyshire at Southampton. [3] In four first-class matches,he scored 19 runs with a highest score of 7. [4] In 1899,he was appointed vicar of Braishfield,an appointment which he held until 1917;he was concurrently rector at Eldon from 1901 to 1907. [2] Porter subsequently lived in Devon,where he died at Tiverton in December 1937. [5] He was married with children, [2] one of whom died in a motor accident in 1925. [6]
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