Abraham Portal

Abraham Portal (baptised 1726 – 1809) was an English goldsmith and dramatist.

Life He was the son of a clergyman, Peter William Portal, of Huguenot origin. Other friends were Edmund Cartwright and John Scott of Amwell.

His brother was the Rev. Andrew Portal, headmaster and usher of Abingdon School.

In the spring of 1796 Portal seems to have been living in Castle Street, Holborn. Poems, 1781. The volume includes dedicatory verses to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and two bombastic poems, War: an Ode, and Innocence: a Poetical Essay, which had previously been issued separately. Vortimer, or the True Patriot: a Tragedy, London, 1796. Among the dramatis personæ are Vortimer's father Vortigern, his mother Rowena, Hengist, and Horsa. Samuel Ireland's Vortigern and Rowena had appeared in March 1795.

Neither Vortimer nor Olindo and Sophronia was acted.