James Porter (Jacobite)

Colonel James Porter was an Irish politician and supporter of the Catholic King James II.

He was a Groom of the Bedchamber to King James II in 1686. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Fethard, County Wexford in the 1689 Patriot Parliament of Ireland summoned by the King.

In 1689 he joined the King in exile at St Germains in France and was soon sent on fruitless diplomatic missions to seek support from the French King Louis XIV and the Pope. He was later made Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in France on the accession in 1701 of James III as the de jure King of England, Scotland and Ireland.[1]

References

Edward T. Corp (2004). A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689-1718. Cambridge University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-521-58462-3. Retrieved 14 February 2013.

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by	Member of Parliament for Fethard, County Wexford 1689 With: Nicholas Stafford	Succeeded by Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bt Dudley Loftus

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[1] Edward T. Corp (2004). A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689-1718. Cambridge University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-521-58462-3. Retrieved 14 February 2013.