Modern English biography

council chamber at Scarborough. _Edgbastonia Feb. 1882 pp._ 20–3 _portrait_. POTOCKI, COUNT MIECESLAS FRANCOIS JOSEPH. _b._ Russia 1794; excessively rich, having an income of 6,000,000 francs; came to England and was naturalized 6 Feb. 1875; left all his property to charities as he could not bear the idea of it going to his heir; before his death altered his will and left his money to his son Nicholas Potocki, who had never offended him, amount said to be £80,000 a year; his wife the countess Potocki, a musician, the friend and benefactor of F. F. Chopin the composer, sang at his death bed. _d._ 35 Avenue Friedland, Paris Nov. 1878. _Times 7 Dec. 1878 p._ 5; _Willeby’s F. F. Chopin_ (1892) 281–2. POTT, DAVID. _b._ 9 Feb. 1812; ensign 47 Bengal N.I. 14 Sept. 1832, lieut. col. 1 May 1858 to 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Borthwickshiels, Hawick 2 Oct. 1881. 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