Historian. Born Roy Sydney Porter at Foxholes, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Published his first book 'The Making of Geology in Britain' in 1977. He was a lecturer at Cambridge and the Wellcome Institute, and made frequent appearances on radio and television. Died of natural causes whilst cycling to his allotment and declared dead at the Conquest Hospital, St Leonards, East Sussex.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Roy Porter
From their website: "The Belsize Residents Association grew out of a campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s to stop the area being split in two by a motorway."Â The group "seek to preserve the ...
Created on 11 April 1992.  By 2013 it had become part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which sponsors English Heritage.
From the picture source website: "The association came into being to commemorate and bring together veterans and families of the Siege of Malta (1940 to 1943)."
The Irish Post has a photo of a similar plaque erected by this group in Dublin.
Founder of Friern Barnet & District Local History Society. Lived in Friern Barnet between 1966 and 1995.
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