Roy Porter 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 Wilson's School in Camberwell. He won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied under J. H. Plumb. His contemporaries included Simon Schama and Andrew Wheatcroft. He achieved a double starred first and became a junior Fellow in 1968, studying under Robert M.
Billy Porter (criminal) store a year before. The same day of his arrest, Kurtz was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida and extradited to Troy where he was tried as an accessory. In the late-1880s, his criminal career was profiled in "Professional Criminals of America" (1886) and "Defenders and Offenders" (1888). The latter publication referred to O'Brien as "one of the most celebrated crackmen and bank burglars in America". Billy Porter (criminal) William O'Brien (1850 – unknown), better known as Billy Porter but also known by the alias William or Billy Morton, was an American burglar and underworld figure in New York City during the