POTTER, Thomas Joseph (son of George Potter). b. Scarborough 9 June 1828; received into Church of Rome at Stockhead park, Beverley 24 Feb. 1847, and joined Stonyhurst college; entered All Hallow’s college, Dublin 24 Oct. 1854; ordained priest 28 June 1857; director of All Hallows’ college and professor of sacred eloquence 1857 to death; author of The two victories 1860; The rector’s daughter 1861; Legends, lyrics, and hymns 1862; Light and shade 1864; Percy Grange or the ocean of life 1864, 2 ed. 1884; A panegyric of St. Patrick 1864; The spoken word or the art of extempore preaching 1872. d. All Hallow’s college, Dublin 31 Aug. 1873.
POTTER, Thomas Rossell (son of John Potter, farmer). b. West Hallam, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1799; resided at Wymeswold, Leics. 1814 to death; kept a school at Wymeswold; hunted with the Quorn hounds; wrote many papers and poems in the Sporting Magazine under pseudonym of Old Grey 1827–40; editor of the Leicester Advertiser 1849–58, of the Ilkeston Pioneer 1856, of the Leicester Guardian 1858, and of the Loughborough Monitor 1865; discovered a British camp on Beacon hill, Leics.; F.R. Soc. of literature 1849; hon. life member of Leicester literary and philosophical soc. 1849; author of The history and antiquities of Charnwood Forest 1842; Walks round Loughborough 1837; Rambles round Loughborough 1868; Poems 1881. d. Wymeswold 19 April 1873. The Reliquary, July 1873 pp. 17–20; Antiquary 10 May 1873 p. 225.
POTTER, William (only son of William Potter, merchant). b. Liverpool 1838; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 30 April 1861, bencher 25 Nov. 1881 to death; went northern circuit; Q.C. 24 March 1880; master of the northern bar lodge of freemasons; contested Northamptonshire, northern division July 1892. d. 5 Papers buildings, Temple, London 5 Dec. 1893. bur. St. Margaret’s, Princes road, Liverpool.
POTTER, William Auboné (eld. son of Edward Potter, M.I.C.E.) b. Cramlington, Northumberland Oct. 1832; educ. King’s coll. London to 1850; apprentice to his father, a viewer at Cramlington collieries 1850–5; viewer to Day and Twibell, Monk Bretton 1855; engaged in connection with accidents at the Lundhill colliery March 1857, the Edmund’s main colliery Dec. 1862, and the Oaks colliery Dec. 1866; viewer of the Silkstone and Dodsworth collieries 1863; ensign 37 West Yorkshire rifle volunteer corps (Barnsley) 2 Nov. 1860; with Mr. Embleton founded the Midland institute of mining and mechanical engineers, secretary; viewer of the Cramlington collieries 1868 to death; government check viewer of Greenwich hospital estates; mayor of Tynemouth 1875; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1867. d. Tynemouth 20 June 1887. bur. Cramlington church. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xci 421–3 (1888).
POTTER, William Norwood. b. London 28 Aug. 1840; commenced playing chess at Simpson’s divan, London 1867; defeated Blackburne and De Vere in the handicap tournay, city of London chess club 1870, took second prize at tournay 1874–5; editor of City of London chess magazine 1874–5; drew a match with Mason 1879; editor of the Westminster papers 1874; chess editor of Land and Water to 1884; with Steinmetz and Zukertort editor of article on chess in Encyclopædia Britannica v 592–603 (1876); with Steinmetz conducted 2 games by correspondence against Vienna. d. Sutton, Surrey 13 March 1895. Westminster Papers 1 May 1876 p. 4 portrait; Chess Monthly April 1895 p. 225 portrait.
POTTINGER, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (5 son of Eldred Curwen Pottinger, d. Aug. 1814). b. Mount Pottinger, co. Down 25 Dec. 1789; cadet in the Bombay infantry 1804; explored the country between India and Persia 1809–10; served during the Mahratta war 1805; collector of Ahmadnagar; major 13 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1825; resident in Cutch 1825; lieut. col. of 24 N.I. 17 March 1829 to 1839, of 14 N.I. 1839–40, and of 69 N.I. 1840 to 19 Aug. 1841; political agent in Sind 1836–40; created baronet 27 April 1840; envoy and plenipotentiary in China and superintendent of British trade May 1841; cooperated in the capture of Amoy, Chusan, Chinhai, and Ningpo 1841; signed the treaty of Nanking 29 Aug. 1842, by which Hongkong was ceded to England; governor and commander-in-chief of Hongkong 5 April 1843 to Feb. 1844; G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; P.C. 23 May 1844; voted freedom of city of London 13 Feb. 1845, admitted 17 July 1845; voted an annuity of £1,500 by house of commons June 1845; col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 4 June 1845 to death; governor of Cape of Good Hope 28 Sept. 1846 to Aug. 1847; governor of Madras 4 Aug. 1847 to 28 April 1854, took his seat 7 April 1848; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841, L.G. in India 11 Nov. 1851; author of Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde 1816. d. Valetta, Malta 18 March 1856. bur. Valetta, portrait painted by sir Francis Grant. Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1846 pp. 426–42 portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii 178, 828 (1884); I.L.N. ii 24 (1843) portrait.
POTTINGER, John (2 son of Thomas Pottinger of Mount Pottinger). b. May 1815; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 9 June 1831; lieut. col. 13 May 1859, retired on full pay as M.G. 1 Sept. 1863; commissary general 27 Dec. 1861 to 1 Sept. 1863; as brigade major served in Persian campaign 1856–7, medal with clasp; commanded Ahmednugger field force during Indian mutiny 1857–8; sheriff of Leitrim 1867; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Mount Pottinger, Carrick-on-Shannon 12 April 1877.
POTTS, Alexander William. b. 1834; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the football and stroke of the boat; at St. John’s coll. Camb., second classic, second chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861, LL.D.; fellow of his college 1858; a master at the Charterhouse 1858; an assistant master Rugby 1862–8; the first head master of Fettes college, Edinburgh July 1868 to death, the college prospered under his management; author of Hints towards Latin prose composition 1869, 2 ed. 1870; Passages for translation into Latin prose 1879; with C. Darnell Aditus faciliores, a Latin construing book 1875; Aditus faciliores Græci 1878; and with W. A. Heard Camenarum Flosculos 1877, 3 ed. 1886. d. The lodge, Fettes college 15 Nov. 1889. bur. Dean cemetery 19 Nov. The Scotsman 18 Nov. 1889 p. 7, 20 Nov. p. 6; School sermons by A. W. Potts (1891), memoir pp. xi–xl portrait.
POTTS, George (2 son of William Potts of Kelso). b. London 1807; contested Barnstaple 30 March 1857; M.P. Barnstaple 30 April 1859 to death; resided 29 Upper Seymour st. London and Trafalgar house, Barnstaple. d. Haverstock hill, London 20 Sept. 1863.
POTTS, John (son of William Potts, printer, d. 1867). b. Banbury 2 Dec. 1830; proprietor and editor of the Banbury Guardian 1867 to death; ensign of the Banbury volunteers 24 Feb. 1860, lieut. 21 Oct. 1862; obtained medals at National rifle association at Wimbledon; president of Banbury bowling club; presented by provincial grand lodge of Oxfordshire with a charity jewel with 13 clasps 1884. d. Banbury 28 April 1892. bur. 2 May. Banbury guardian 5 May 1892 p. 8.