Beilby Porteus

The following year a Service of Thanksgiving for his recovery was held in St Paul's Cathedral at which Porteus himself preached. See also

Porteous family
Bishops of Chester
Bishops of London. He vigorously opposed the spread of the principles of the French Revolution as well as what he regarded as the ungodly and dangerous doctrines of Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason.

Beilby Porteus (or Porteous; 8 May 1731 – 13 May 1809) successively Bishop of Chester and of London was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist in England.