Portal, Melville, M.A., Christ Church, Oxon, 1844, from Harrow, M.P. North Hants 1849-57, late capt. North Hants yeomanry cavalry, high sheriff Hants 1863, chairman of the judicial court since 1865 and chairman of quarter sessions since 1879, J.P., D.L., a student of Lincoln's Inn 15 April, 1842 (then aged 22), called to the bar 24 Nov., 1845 (eldest son of John Portal, Esq., of Freefolk Priors, Hants); born 31 July, 1819; married 9 Oct., 1855, Lady Charlotte Mary Elliot, dau. of Gilbert, 2nd earl of Minto, G.C.B., and has issue (see Foster's Peerage, E. Minto).
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