John Porteous

(1695-1736)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Porteous, John, d. 1736 NRA: Porteous John (d 1736) Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard DNB: Porteous, John (c.1695-1736), army officer and victim of crowd violence LBT ID: JoPorte1836 VIAF ID: 55804519 LOC ID: n92033305	B/BAP: 1695 DIED: 1736-09-07
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Leader of the City Guard in Edinburgh who was lynched after firing upon a mob; the story is related by Walter Scott in The Heart of Midlothian (1818).
REFERENCES TO John Porteous: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 12