| Authorised form of name | Porrett; Robert (1783 - 1868) |
| Dates | 1783 - 1868 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 22 September 1783 |
| Date of death | 25 November 1868 |
| Research field | Chemistry |
| Activity | Career:
Assistant to his father as Ordnance Storekeeper; Tower of London; Chief Clerk of the Stores, Ordnance Office; retired on a pension (1850); worked on explosives
Memberships:
FSA; FCS (original member); Fellow of the Astronomical Society
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 09/06/1848 |
| Relationships | Son of the Ordnance Storekeeper, Tower of London; unmarried |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1869-1870 vol 18 pp iv-v
Notes:
John Lee has signed election certificate twice |
| Code | NA5610 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1848/14 | Porrett, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PT/8/27 | Paper, 'On the nature of the salts term'd triple prussiates, and on acids formed by the union of certain bodies with the elements of the prussic acid' by Robert Porrett | 6 June 1814 |
| PT/9/14 | Paper, 'Further analytical experiments relative to the constitution of the prussic, of the ferruretted chyazic, and of the sulphuretted chyazic acids; and to that of their salts, together with the application of the atomic theory to the analysis of these bodies' by Robert Porrett | 22 February 1815 |