porter

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Starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the famous detective during his younger years, Mamma Mia actor Firth plays Sir Bucephalus Hodge, the dean of Oxford University, where Holmes is a porter.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

Scrawled in chalk in the list of draft beers was the Edmund Fitzgerald porter, a longtime brew from the Great Lakes Brewing Co.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

One of the regulars at the hub is 64-year-old Les Mifflin, a former kitchen porter who ended up homeless after the breakdown of a relationship.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

Mueller’s next porter chair will have a crown of gnarled bamboo roots she found on the beach in Oxnard.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

A porter in a black overcoat and bowler hat showed me around the college, leading me through Great Court, the largest of the courtyards.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover