Captain John Porteous
1/29/2011 Porteous Research Project CAPTAIN JOHN PORTEOUS The Porteous Research Captain John Porteous, British soldier, Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh (ca. Project 1695-1736). History of the Porteous Early life family John Porteous was born at The Glen, Quair water, near Traquair, A Historical background to Peeblesshire, the son of Stephen Emigration Porteous, a tailor of the Canongate, Edinburgh. Little is Porteous migration known of his early life, except that worldwide he soon found he was not suited to his father's calling. Having served Where did the emigrants in the Scots Dutch regiment in settle? Flanders, in 1716 he became drill master to the Edinburgh force in Porteous at War anticipation of a Jacobite rising, World Wars I and II and two years later was appointed as ensign to the City Guard, and Some useful Resources for was promoted in 1726 to the rank Researchers of Captain. Porteous seems to have been an overbearing official, Site map and downloads despised by the mob and the After a short while he was dragged down and of listings underclasses of Edinburgh society. stripped of his nightgown and shirt, which was then Sources for Porteous wrapped around his head before he was hauled up The Riot again. However, the mob had not tied his hands family historians On 14 April 1736 three convicted and, as he struggled free, they broke his arm and smugglers, Andrew Wilson, William Back to Home shoulder, while another attempted to set light to his Hall and George Robertson, were naked foot. He was taken down a further time and arrested, tried and condemned to cruelly beaten before being hung up again, and died death.
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