Ronald Porter

Surname: PORTER
Style: Ronald Porter
Recreations: wining and dining, reading political biographies, having a good time in general

Career: freelance journalist 1971-; memb: Br Assoc of Journalists 1992-, Good Food Spy 1994-, Royal Soc of St George (City of London branch), Victorian Soc, Cons Policy Forum, Cons Foreign and Cwlth Assoc, 1912 Club, Irish Peers Assoc; patron Nat Art Collections Fund; cncllr Sevenoaks (Dunton Green) 1986-90, sch govr 1986-92; patron Leighton House 2007-, benefactor Wallace Collection 2012-; memb Hon Soc of Gray's Inn 1970 (formerly a Gerald Moody scholar); Brother Justicia Lodge; Freeman of City of London 1995; FLS 2012; Knight Cdr of the Order of Stanislas 1997, Chevalier Knight Templars 1996

Books and Publications: contrib to various jls and magazines mainly on food, wine and politics for magazines such as What's On, Aspire and New World; book reviewer Political Quarterly 1980-; Obituaries contrib mainly to The Independent, The Times and Daily Telegraph; contrib Conservative History Journal