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| Husband: | Donald Portway (1887-1979) | |
| Wife: | Sophia Maud Grace A Bezant (1897-1984) | |
| Marriage | 1919 | Wangford, Suffolk |
| Name: | Donald Portway | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Harry Harvey Portway (1857-1929) | |
| Mother: | Harriet Amy Cook (1860-1914) | |
| Birth | 28 Jun 1887 | Halstead, Essex |
| Birth fact | 1887 (age 0) | Birth: 1887 Sept Qtr, Halstead, 4a/545 |
| Census | 1901 (age 13-14) | Boarder, Felstead Village Boarding School, Essex |
| Death fact | 1979 (age 91-92) | 1979 Mar Q, Cambridge, 9/0828 |
| Death | 19 Mar 1979 (age 91) | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Name: | Sophia Maud Grace A Bezant | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 3 Aug 1897 | |
| Death fact | Apr 1984 (age 86) | 1984 Apr, Cambridge, 9/791 (aged 86) |
| Death | 7 Apr 1984 (age 86) | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
A classical scholar at Felstead School, Colonel Donald Portway, CBE, became Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Khartoum after retiring from the Mastership of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, at the age of seventy. A Proctor renowned in history, a swimming Blue, the only man in either university to win his weight four years running in Oxford v. Cambridge boxing, and probably the only one to command combatant troops in the field in the retreat from Mons in the First World War and also the retreat to Dunkirk in the Second. He also saw military service in India, then Korea and Nepal with UNESCO.
Author (among other works) of an autobiography, "Militant Don", published by Robert Hale, London, 1964.
PORTWAY Donald of 33 Millington Rd Cambridge died 19 March 1979. Probate Ipswich 3 August £242082.
PORTWAY Sophia Maud Grace of 33 Millington Road Cambridge died 7 April 1984. Administration with Will Ipswich 24 September £301330.