Portsea is an area of the English city of Portsmouth, located on Portsea Island, within the ceremonial county of Hampshire.

The area was originally known as the Common and lay between the town of Portsmouth and the nearby Dockyard. The Common started to be developed at the end of the seventeenth century, as a response to the overcrowding in the walled town of Portsmouth. This development worried the governor of the dockyard as he feared the new buildings would provide cover for any forces attempting to attack the dockyard. In 1703, he threatened to demolish any buildings within range of the cannons mounted on the dockyard walls. However, after a petition to King George, royal consent for the development was granted in 1704. In 1792 the name of the area was changed from the Common to Portsea. By then it was home to a mixed, dockside population.

William Tucker, baptised there in 1784 was convicted of shoplifting from a Portsea Tailor, William Wilday, in 1798 and transported to New South Wales on the "death ship" ''Hillsborough'' which took convicts and typhus with it from Portsmouth. Tucker escaped and got all the way back to Britain in 1803 only to be taken to Portsmouth for re-embarkation to Australia. If not Portsea's most distinguished son he was certainly one of its more colourful and enterprising ones. He was later a sealer (seal hunter), established the retail trade in preserved Maori heads and settled in Otago, New Zealand where he became that country's first art dealer before falling victim to his hosts in 1817 and being eaten.

By the start of the twentieth century Portsmouth council had started to clear much of the slum housing in Portsea. The city's first council houses were built in the district in 1911.

The area's proximity to the dockyard resulted in its taking massive bomb damage during World War II. After the war the area was redeveloped as all council housing, in a mixture of houses, maisonettes and tower blocks.

The Church of England parish of Portsea covers a wider area than the district of Portsea, but does not include the entirety of Portsea Island.

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Herbert ("Herb") James Elliott AC MBE (born 25 February 1938) is a former Australian athlete, one of the world's greatest middle distance runners who, in Rome 1960, won the olympic gold medal in the 1500 metres on a new world record, 3.35,6 minutes. In 1958, on 6 August he carved 2,7 seconds from Derek Ibbotson´s one mile record, clocking 3.54,5 and in Gothenburg at the end of the month he lowered the 1500 m. record of Stanislav Jungwirth with 2,1 seconds to 3.36.0. Many olympic athletes have won more gold medals than Herb Elliott, but few people have ever exercised such absolute authority in any branch of sport as Elliott did in middle distance running from 1957 to 1961.

Elliott is the chairman of one of the world's largest iron ore miners, and the Global Corporate Challenge health initiative. He never lost a race over 1500 metres or the mile and during his career he broke the four-minute mile on 17 occasions.

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He set a new world record for the mile on 6 August 1958 (3:54.5) at Morton Stadium in Dublin. Later that month he broke the 1500 metres world record in Gothenburg with a time of 3:36.0.

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Elliott credited his visionary and iconoclastic coach, Percy Cerutty, with inspiration to train harder and more naturally than anyone of his era. Cerutty was known to avoid the track, talk about role models outside athletics (like Da Vinci and Jesus), and bring his athletes to the unspoiled seaside beauty of Portsea training camp south of Melbourne, where Elliott would sprint up sand dunes until he dropped. "Faster," said Cerutty, "It's only pain."

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Herb Elliott has been ranked in Western Australia's 100 most influential people.

There is a biography covering his career, ''The Golden Mile'' (Cassell, 1961).

In the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 1964, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). In the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2002, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). The citation read: ''For service to community leadership through the development of sport in Australia, continuing involvement in the Olympic movement at national and international levels, and as a supporter and benefactor of community and charitable organisations for youth, health promotion and cultural understanding''.

He is an Australian Living Treasure.

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He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge where he graduated with a first-class degree in Natural Sciences in 1976 and gained his PhD under Godfrey Hewitt at the University of East Anglia in 1979. After a brief spell as a lab demonstrator at the University of Cambridge, he became a Lecturer at the Department of Genetics and Biometry, University College London, in 1982. Professor Barton is best known for his work on hybrid zones, often using the toad ''Bombina bombina'' as a study organism, and for extending the mathematical machinery needed to investigate multilocus genetics, a field in which he worked in collaboration with Michael Turelli. Concrete research questions he has investigated include: the role of epistasis, the evolution of sex, speciation, and the limits on the rate of adaptation.

Barton moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1990, where he is said to have been instrumental in attracting to the university Brian and Deborah Charlesworth, with whom he had previously collaborated, thus complementing the university's strong tradition in quantitative genetics with a population genetics side and making the University of Edinburgh one of the foremost research institutions of genetics in the world. In 2008 Barton moved to Klosterneuburg (Austria) where he became the first professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Barton was made a professor in 1994. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1995. He received a Wolfson Merit Award in 2005. In 2008 he was one of thirteen recipients of the Darwin-Wallace Medal, which is given every 50 years by the Linnean Society of London.

In 2007, Barton, along with Derek E.G. Briggs, Jonathan A. Eisen, David B. Goldstein, and Nipam H. Patel, collaborated to create ''Evolution,'' an undergraduate textbook which integrates molecular biology, genomics, and human genetics with traditional evolutionary studies.

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