| 词条 | Arthur Porter (historian) |
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| honorific_prefix = Professor | name = Arthur Porter | image = | imagesize = | caption = | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1924|10|27|df=yes}} | birth_name = Arthur Thomas Daniel Porter III | birth_place = Freetown, British Sierra Leone | death_date = March 26, 2019 | death_place = Ottawa, Canada | occupation = Historian, sociologist | genre = | movement = | website = | spouse = | signature = | nationality = British Subject, Sierra Leonean | education = University of Cambridge, Boston College | language = }} Arthur Thomas Daniel Porter III (1924-2019) was a Creole professor, historian, and author. His book on the Sierra Leone Creole people, Creoledom: A study of the development of Freetown society, examines their society in a way in which few books of their time period had, and it is one of the most quoted books on the Creoles. He was also published in East Africa and the UK. He died on March 26, 2019 in Ottawa, Canada. Early lifeArthur Porter was born in 1924 in Freetown, British Sierra Leone, to Guy Hardesty Porter and Adelina Porter. Guy Porter was an electrical engineer who died as a civil servant. Adelina Porter was a school teacher at the Freetown Secondary School for Girls, which was attended by Porter's sister, Iyatunde Harriet Maria Palmer (née Porter). Porter attended the Cathedral School in Freetown. BackgroundLike many Creoles, Porter is of West Indian, Jamaican Maroon, Liberated African, and Nova Scotian settler descent. His paternal grandfather was Arthur Thomas Porter I (1834–1908), a successful Creole businessman of West Indian and Jamaican Maroon parentage. The father of A. T. Porter I was Guy Porter, a West Indian immigrant to Sierra Leone via England, who became a headman of Kent Village. Guy Porter married a Maroon colonist. The Porter family house owned by A. T. Porter I was at No. 11 Wilberforce Street in the heart of Settler Town and near Zion Methodist Church. Porter was also of "Settler" or Nova Scotian stock, by way of a Virginian ancestor who had arrived in Sierra Leone via Nova Scotia. The Virginian had occupied a house in what the Nova Scotians called Settler Town, Sierra Leone, and was one of the founders of Freetown. He is a graduate of the Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine in Cambridge, England.[1] Personal lifePorter married a woman from Denmark and had two children, Arthur and Emma. He was the grandfather of four girls: Gemma, Fiona, Adina and Charlotte. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and he makes frequent trips back to his homeland, Sierra Leone. Porter's son, Arthur Porter IV, was a Canadian physician and former Director General (CEO) of the McGill University Health Centre. LegacyPorter's work on Sierra Leonean history is considered to be among the most scholarly work done on the people of his native Sierra Leone. Porter's analysis of the stratification of Creole society is considered the most authoritative work on the development of Creole society, and most scholars reference his book when researching the Creole people. The work he accomplished during his tenure at Fourah Bay College has made many look upon Porter as one in the mould of historian Christopher Fyfe, Professor Eldred D. Jones, Professor Akintola J. G. Wyse, and linguist Leo Spitzer. After leaving his post as Vice-Principal of Fourah Bay College, Porter moved to East Africa and became Principal of the University College, Nairobi, one of the three colleges of the University of East Africa. His term there ended in 1970.[2][3] Sourceshttps://www.ottawamatters.com/obituaries/porter-arthur-thomas-1346786 1. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20120210130456/http://www.muhcfoundation.com/en/arthur_porter_e "Hon. Dr. Arthur T. Porter, P.C., M.D."], MUHC Foundation. 2. ^"Proceedings & Papers of the International Conference on African Bibliography, Nairobi, 4-8 Dec. 1967", Patterson, J. D. and Jones, R. (eds). NY: Africana Publishing Corp., 1970. 3. ^Headway, Volume 3, Number 1; "Turning Point 1963: Looking back on the birth of a Kenyan medical school". McGill Publications, McGill University, Canada. Retrieved 13 February 2012. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129072440/http://publications.mcgill.ca/headway/magazine/making-headway-mcgill-research-facts/ |date=29 November 2014 }}
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