Albert Porter (cricketer)

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,[1] before matriculating to St John's College, Cambridge.[2] 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.[3] 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.[2] 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.[3] In four first-class matches, he scored 19 runs with a highest score of 7.[4] 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.[2] Porter subsequently lived in Devon, where he died at Tiverton in December 1937.[5] He was married with children,[2] one of whom died in a motor accident in 1925.[6]