Samuel Porter, Baron Porter

Samuel Porter, Baron Porter

Samuel Lowry Porter, Baron Porter (7 February 1877 – 13 February 1956) was a British judge.

On 28 March 1938, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and created a life peer with the title Baron Porter, of Longfield in County Tyrone. A month later, he was invested to the Privy Council. Porter resigned as Lord of Appeal in 1954.

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