Montagu Phippen Porch (15 March 1877 – 8 November 1964) was a British colonial officer who in 1918 became Winston Churchill's stepfather, although he was three years his junior.

[3] On 8 June 1886, his father died at Puri in British India, leaving an estate valued at £5,212.

[4] Porch was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford,[3] and while there in 1900 he joined the Imperial Yeomanry which was a Cavalry regiment of the British Army, seeing active service as a trooper in the South African War.

[3] In 1906, he gained a place as an officer of the Colonial Service in Nigeria (was Assistant Resident in Zaria in 1910) and served in it until 1919, with most of his time spent in Africa.

[7][8] After her death, her sister Leonie Leslie commented that "It is Winston who weeps copiously, but it is Jack, his brother, and poor Porchy who are paying off her debts.