George Porter (architect)
English architect
George Porter (c. 1795/96 – 1856) was an English architect, based in Bermondsey, then part of Surrey, in the early- to mid-nineteenth-century.
Life and career
Porter was appointed district surveyor to the parishes of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, and St. Mary, Rotherhithe, Surrey, in 1824. He still held the posts in 1832, when he gave his address as Fort Place, Bermondsey.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1815 and between 1834 and 1837. Works he showed there included "Design for a Museum" (1815), "Villa in Surrey" (1834), "Villa on Brighton road" (1835) and "London Leather warehouse" (1837).
He died in 1856. At the time of his death he was described as district surveyor of Newington and the central division of Lambeth.
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