Additional comments: From Grove's: PORTER, Samuel, bom at Norwich in 1733,
was a chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral, and a
pupil of Dr. Greene. In 1757 he was elected
organist of Canterbury Cathedral. In 1803 he
resigned in favour of Highmore Skeats, organist
of Ssilisbury Cathedral. He died at Canterbury
Dec. 11, 1810, and was buried in the cloisters
at Canterbury. A volume of his 'Cathedral
Music,' containing two Services, five Anthems,
a Sanctus, Kyrie, Sufirages, and nine chants,
with his portrait on the title, was published by
his son, Rev. William James Porter, Headmaster
of the College School, Worcester, who
also published two anthems and four chants of
his own composition, on the title-page of which
he is described as ' of the King's School, Canterbury.'
Porter's Service in D, which is of a
pleasing character, is stOl (1880) frequently
performed.
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