Modern English biography

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.