William Porter

William Porter pastored the Independent congregation at Camomile-street from 1756 to 1773.  He came from Royston, Kent, and studied under Conder, Walker, and Gibbons at Mile-End Academy.  He was ordained at Miles’s-lane in August 1756.  For ten years he preached in the morning at Miles’s-lane, and in the afternoon to the same congregation at another meetinghouse in Hoxton-square.  A new meetinghouse was erected in Camomile-street in 1766 to accommodate the people.  He resigned in 1773 and removed to Buckinghamshire. See Walter Wilson, The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark; Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time, 4 vols. (London: W. Wilson for W. Button, 1808–1814), 1.388-89.