* April 12 – Margaret Porteous is the first person recorded to die in the Great Plague of London.

Porteous is arrested later.

Hawkshaw, ancestral home of the Porteous family at Tweedsmuir in Peeblesshire, a peel tower dating from at least 1439, no longer stands but its site is marked by a cairn.

Accounts of events are confused, but what is certain is that Captain Porteous instructed his men to fire above the heads of the crowd but, in so doing, they shot and wounded people in the windows of the high tenement buildings opposite.

The spot where Porteous died is today marked by a memorial plate in the Grassmarket.

An interesting insight into Porteous ' experience is that from 1960 until his death in 1978 Porteous was an enthusiastic advocate of the medical benefits of niacin.

Accounts of events are confused, but what is certain is that Captain Porteous instructed his men to fire above the heads of the crowd but, in so doing, they shot and wounded people in the windows of the high tenement buildings opposite.

The spot where Porteous died is today marked by a memorial plate in the Grassmarket.

The Porteous family is an ancient Scottish Borders armigerous family.

The earliest possible reference, according to Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh, is to a Guillaume Porteuse ( later William Porteous ), who arrived from Normandy c 1400 under the patronship of the wealthy Fraise family ( later to become the Frasers ).

Gabriel Thomas Porteous, Jr. ( born 1946 ) is a former United States federal judge who served for sixteen years before being impeached and removed from office in December 2010.

Historically part of Peeblesshire, the original village of Hawkshaw was destroyed when the Fruid Reservoir was constructed in 1963, and is remembered as the ancestral family home of the Porteous family, dating from at least 1439.

John Timothy Irvine Porteous, CM ( born 1933 ) is a Canadian administrator.

Rose Porteous ( née Lacson, born 26 October 1948 ), a Filipino-born Australian, is best known for her marriage to Lang Hancock, a West Australian iron ore mining magnate, and the protracted legal battle with her former step-daughter, Gina Rinehart, over the circumstances that led to the death of Hancock, and the distribution of his estate.

Porteous, who lives in Perth and Melbourne, Victoria, is often referred to by the media as a socialite.

Born in Silay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines, Porteous is the daughter of Nicolas Lacson and Amparo Lacson.

Rinehart is the daughter of Lang Hancock, the late husband of Porteous, and Hope Margaret Nicholas, Hancock's second wife.

The wealth of Porteous is unknown.

* Housing for 140 students is provided among three residence halls, located one block from the Porteous Building.

He is the author of 2008's In Turkey I Am Beautiful: Between Chaos and Madness in a Strange Land, a memoir of his travels in Turkey, The Secret Life of the Gold Coast, " an energetic and searching book " and of an unpublished biography of Australian celebrity Rose Porteous which was commissioned by publishers Duffy and Snellgrove but suppressed on legal grounds.

They were probably influenced by Scots versions of popular French romances that were also produced in the period, including The Buik of Alexander, Launcelot o the Laik and The Porteous of Noblenes by Gilbert Hay.

When a man attempted to cut Wilson's body down after the execution Porteous ordered his troops to fire on the crowd, and seven people were killed.

Captain Porteous described how their dead and wounded were " just swilling around in the water.

Although the rioters were generally supportive of the convicted smugglers, Porteous seems to have been a somewhat overbearing official, despised by the mob and the underclasses of Edinburgh society.

Feelings were running high in Edinburgh and the jury unanimously found Porteous guilty of murder.

It was thought by Walpole, Queen Caroline and the Duke of Newcastle that Porteous had been unnecessarily sacrificed and there were even rumours that the conspiracy had involved the local city magistrates.

However, despite a reward of £ 200 being made available by the government for information, those responsible for the murder of Porteous were never found.

Feelings were running high in Edinburgh and the jury unanimously found Porteous guilty of murder.

It was thought by Walpole, Queen Caroline and the Duke of Newcastle that Porteous had been unnecessarily sacrificed and there were even rumours that the conspiracy had involved the local city magistrates.

Despite a reward of £ 200 being made available by the government for information, those responsible for the murder of Porteous were never brought to justice.

Between 1884 and 1910 thousands of Fresno scrapers were produced at the Fresno Agricultural Works which had been formed by Porteous, and used in agriculture and land levelling, as well as road and railroad grading and the construction industry.

Judge Porteous also said there was ample evidence that many of the groups participating in the Governor's Program on Abstinence were " furthering religious objectives.

During the Senate trial for impeachment, Jonathan Turley, acting in Judge Porteous's defense, announced that Judge Porteous had decided to leave the federal bench in 2011 were he not removed from office.

Porteous entered the University of Edinburgh as first bursar in 1916, but his studies were interrupted by World War I service in France, where he served as a subaltern in the 13th ( Service ) Battalion, The Royal Scots.

A native of Montreal, Porteous first met Pierre Trudeau in 1957 when the two were students traveling in West Africa for a World University Service of Canada seminar, for which Porteous represented McGill University, where he had previously been responsible for the outstanding 1957 student production of My Fur Lady, which he co-wrote.

By the end of the series Brian Wenzel and Shane Porteous were the only original cast members.

Hancock and Porteous became romantically involved over the course of Porteous ' employment and they were wed on 6 July 1985, in Sydney.

Although there were many quarrels, Hancock and Porteous remained married until his death in 1992.

Central to Rinehart's lawsuits were the accusations that Porteous married Hancock only for his fortune and alleged that her stepmother's actions had contributed to her father's death.

Due to the Porteous Riots and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 the funds were left unused.

On June, 16, 1885, Dusy and his partner Abijah McCall were issued U. S. Patent 320, 055, for their improvement on the Buck Scraper, invented by James Porteous of Fresno, California.