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