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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, before matriculating to St John's College, Cambridge. 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. 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. 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. In four first-class matches, he scored 19 runs with a highest score of 7. 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. Porter subsequently lived in Devon, where he died at Tiverton in December 1937. He was married with children, one of whom died in a motor accident in 1925.

References

1. Marlborough College Register from 1843 to 1904 (5 ed.). H. Hart. 1905. p. 296.
2. ^ Venn, John (1944). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. p. 160.
3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Albert Porter". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
4. "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Albert Porter". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
5. "Wisden - Obituaries in 1938". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
6. Westbourne motor smash. Western Gazette. 6 March 1925. p. 6

External links

• Albert Porter at ESPNcricinfo

• 1864 births
• 1937 deaths
• Cricketers from the London Borough of Croydon
• People from Croydon
• People educated at Marlborough College
• Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
• English cricketers
• Somerset cricketers
• 19th-century English Anglican priests
• Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present cricketers
• Hampshire cricketers
• 20th-century English Anglican priests