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.