Thom's Irish Who's Who/Porter, Sir Leslie Alexander Selim

3334365Thom's Irish Who's Who — Porter, Sir Leslie Alexander Selim


PORTER, Sir Leslie Alexander Selim, K.C.S.I. (1911). C.S.I. (1906), M.A., LL.D. (Queen's University, Belfast): was Assistant-Secretary to Government, Unit Provinces, India, 1878-83; Acting Dept. Sec. and Sec. to Government of India, Legislative Dept., 1891: Acting Chief Secretary, 1903-04; Member of Council of Lieut.-Governor, 1903-04: Member of Gov.-General's Legislative Council, 1904-06; Vice-Pres., Council of Lieut.-Gov., 1909; Member of Board of Revenue, Unit Provinces, 1906-11; Member of Council of Lieut.-Gov., 1907-11; Acting Lieut.-Governor, 1910 and 1911; retired 1911; b. 1854; son of late Rev. J. L. Porter, D.D., LL.D., President of Queen's College, Belfast; m. 1882, Aletta Harrison (d. 1914), dau. of Lieut.-Col. Aston. East India United Service Club, London, S.W.