POTTER, Addison (eld. son of Addison Langhorn Potter of Heaton hall, d. 1853). b. 1820; a brewer and maltster with his father at Newcastle, head of the firm 1853; fire brick and cement manufacturer at Willington quay; chairman of Newcastle and Gateshead water co.; member of Newcastle town council 1852, alderman 1865, mayor 1873–4, 1874–5; the oldest surviving volunteer officer; captain Northumberland and Durham artillery 16 Aug. 1859, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1861 to death; C.B. 24 May 1881, invested at Windsor castle 1 July; a partner in the Stella coal co, as senior partner presented with his portrait 27 Aug. 1874, Mrs. Potter receiving a tiara of diamonds. d. Heaton hall, Newcastle 23 Feb. 1894. bur. Jesmond road cemetery 24 Feb. I.L.N. 3 March 1894 p. 254 portrait; Newcastle Weekly chronicle 24 Feb. 1894 p. 8 portrait, 3 March p. 6.
POTTER, Edmund (son of James Potter). b. Manchester 1802; calico printer at Dinting Vale, near Glossop, Derbyshire 1827, his business became one of the largest in the world; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1852–61; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; M.P. Carlisle 1861–74; resided 64 Queen’s gate, South Kensington, London; author of Calico print as an art manufacture 1852; Trade schools 1854; Practical opinions against partnership with limited liability, by a Manchester man 1855; The sugar duties 1864, 2 ed. 1864. d. Camfield place, Hatfield, Herts 26 Oct. 1883.
POTTER, Edmund Compton (son of preceding). b. Manchester 22 July 1830; partner in his father’s firm of E. Potter and Co. 1851; an art collector having one of the finest collections of cloisonné ware in the kingdom; among the pictures at his residence Rusholme hall, Lancashire was the Welsh funeral by David Cox; his collection of pictures, &c. was sold in London 22 March 1884 for £37,619. d. Brighton 6 May 1883.
POTTER, George. b. Kenilworth 1832; apprenticed to a carpenter at Coventry; came to London, employed in building firm of George Myers and son; elected a member of the Progressive society of carpenters 1854; became prominent in the lock-out in the building trades of London 1859; headed the deputation of workmen of London who welcomed Garibaldi 11 April 1864; presented by the combined trades of London and the provinces with an illuminated address and a purse of £300 in 1866; started and edited a paper entitled The Beehive 1861; member for Westminster of the London school board 27 Nov. 1873 to Nov. 1882, obtained the appointment of the educational endowment committee; contested Peterborough 3 Feb. 1874 and Preston 2 July 1886; as president of the London working men’s association opened the first trade-union congress held in St. Martin’s hall, Long Acre Aug. 1868; wrote articles on labour questions in the Contemporary Review and The Times; author of The labour question: an address to the capitalists and employers of the building trade, being a few reasons on behalf of a reduction of the hours of labour 1861. d. 21 Marney road, Wandsworth, Surrey 3 June 1893. Webb’s History of trade unionism (1894) 213, 230, 237, 256, 282; G. J. Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life ii 194 (1893).
POTTER, George William Killett (brother of Philip Cipriani H. Potter 1792–1871). b. 1798; admitted solicitor 1819; secondary of city of London 1831 to death, for which office he paid £5,000; clerk of the coach-makers co. to death; one of the undersheriffs of London. d. 70 Russell sq. London 12 May 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 527 (1871); Law Journal vi 334 (1871).
POTTER, Sir John (eld. son of sir Thomas Potter, first mayor of Manchester, d. 20 March 1845). b. Polefield, Prestwich, Lancs. 1815; educ. in univ. of Edinb.; head of firm of Potters and Norris, George st. Manchester, drapers and merchants 1845 to death; alderman of Manchester corporation 1845 to death, mayor 1848–51; knighted at Manchester 10 Oct. 1851; M.P. Manchester 30 March 1857 to death. d. Beech house, Pendleton, Manchester 25 Oct. 1858. Pusely’s Commercial companion, 2 ed. (1860) p. 143; G.M. v 634 (1858); I.L.N. xviii 484 (1851).
POTTER, Philip Cipriani Hambly. b. London 2 Oct. 1792; associate of Philharmonic society March 1813, a member Oct. 1813; first appeared at a Philharmonic concert 29 April 1816, when he played the pianoforte in a sextet of his own composition; studied in Vienna, Germany, and Italy 1817–21; principal professor of the pianoforte at royal academy of music March 1823 to 1859; director of the orchestral classes and conductor of the public concerts at R.A. of music 1827–59, principal of the academy 1832–59; introduced into England at the Philharmonic society’s concerts Beethoven’s concertos in C minor 1824 and in G 1825, wrote a symphony in A minor for the society, produced 1833; conductor of the Madrigal society 1855–70; treasurer of the society of British musicians 1858–65; edited 6 pieces by Beethoven 1854–60; H. Bertini’s Rudiments du pianiste 1850, and his Studies for the piano 1845; J. C. Kessler’s Twenty-four studies for the piano 1853; Chefs d’œuvres de Mozart 1837; composer of Sonata for the piano 1817; When evening draws her curtain round, a romance 1825; Studies for the piano in the major and minor keys 1827; Medora e Corrado, a cantata 1828; Trois grand trios pour le piano 1835; Etudes pour le piano forte 1840; Cipriani Potter’s celebrated octave lesson 1848; his name is attached to 40 pieces of music. d. 3 Craven Hill, Hyde park, London 26 Sept. 1871. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 2 Oct., a portrait by Bendixen and Seguin was published 1838. I.L.N. lix 339 (1871).
POTTER, Richard (son of Richard Potter, corn merchant and then brewer). b. Toad lane, Manchester 2 Jany. 1799; educ. Manchester gr. sch. 1811–5; engaged in mercantile life some years; studied optics under Dr. Dalton; read 8 papers at first three meetings of British association 1831–3; scholar of Queen’s coll. Camb. 1834, fellow Jany. 1839–43; sixth wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; L.R.C.P. 1841 but never practised; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Univ. coll. London Oct. 1841 to April 1843, and Oct. 1844 to July 1865, Emeritus professor July 1865 to death; professor of philosophy and astronomy King’s coll. Toronto June 1843 to Aug. 1844; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1846, 4 ed. 1859; An elementary treatise on optics, 2 parts 1847–51; Physical optics, or the nature and properties of light, 2 parts 1856–9; An elementary treatise on hydrostatics, 2 parts 1859–87; and of about 60 papers in scientific periodicals. d. Brookside, Cambridge 6 June 1886. Manchester School Register iii 82–4 (1874).
POTTER, Richard (only son of Richard Potter, M.P. Wigan, d. Penzance 13 July 1842). b. Manchester 1817; educ. Lond. univ. and Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow of his college; barrister M.T. 18 Jany. 1842; lost much of his income in French revolution 1848; member of Price and Co. Gloucester, with branches at Grimsby and Barrow in Furness 1850; constructed the wooden huts for the English and the French in the Crimea 1854; a director of Great western railway 1849–56, 1863, chairman Aug. 1863–5; consolidated the G.W.R. stocks and established a superannuation fund for the work people; a director of Grand trunk railway of Canada 1862, president 1869–76; Beatrice Potter, authoress, is his daughter. d. Box house, Minchinhampton, Gloucs. 1 Jany. 1892. Times 4 Jany. 1892 p. 10.
POTTER, Robert. Attorney in Dublin; defended Wm. Smith O’Brien 1849; law agent to Limerick corporation; M.P. Limerick 15 July 1852 to death. d. 1 Oct. 1854.