Early Life
Arthur Thomas Porter III was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1924 to Guy Hardesty Porter and Adelina Porter. Guy Porter was an electrical engineer who died as a civil servant. Arthur Porter's mother, Adelina was a school teacher at the Freetown Secondary School for Girls, where Arthur Porter's sister, Iyatunde Harriet Maria Palmer (nee Porter) attended. Arthur Porter attended the Cathedral School in Freetown. Arthur knew a number of future successful Sierra Leoneans. Among the less well known was Charles Sylvanus Brown (b. 1923 d. 2013), a student at Albert Academy.
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