NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809 NRA: Porteus Beilby (1731-1808) Bishop of London DNB: Porteus, Beilby (1731-1809), bishop of London, born at York on 8 May 1731 LBT ID: BePorte1809 VIAF ID: 42188951 LOC ID: n85089750 | B/BAP: 1731-05-08 DIED: 1809-05-14 |
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English divine; his Cambridge prize-poem Death: a Poetical Essay
(1759) was frequently reprinted. He was bishop of Chester (1776-87) and bishop of London
(1787-1809). | |