Roy Porter "History of Science" for many years. In 2007 Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone edited "Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter" (Palgrave Macmillan). Several of the essays address Porter's work directly, and William F. Bynum appends a biographical sketch. Roy Porter Roy Sydney Porter, FBA (31 December 1946 – 3 March 2002) was a British historian known for his important work on the history of medicine. He retired in 2001 from the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College, London (UCL). Porter grew up in South London and attended
William Archer Porter Tait William Archer Porter Tait William Archer Porter Tait FRSE FRMS MICE (1866–1929) was a 19th/20th century Scottish civil engineer and part of the Guthrie Tait dynasty. He was Vice President of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1929. He was born on 25 March 1866 at 6 Greenhill Gardens in south-east Edinburgh, the second son of Peter Guthrie Tait and his wife, Margaret Porter. He was named after his maternal uncle, William Archer Porter. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. From 1881 he studied Engineering at Edinburgh University under Prof Fleeming Jenkin graduating BSc in 1885. He was then apprenticed