Early Career
In 1937 Porteous was appointed to the Chair of Hebrew and Semitic Languages. He was Principal of New College and also Dean of the Faculty from 1964 until his retirement in 1968. He had been commissioned into the Edinburgh University Officers' Training Corps in 1941, but resigned his commission as a Lieutenant in 1945.
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