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1843, wrote many papers in the journal; author of History of the college of All Saints, Maid stone 1847; The coinsof Cunobeline and of the ancient Britons 1853 ; Britannic researches or new facts and rectifications of ancient British history 1853; Britannia antiqua, ancient Britain brcught within the limits of authentic history 1857; Celtic inscriptions on Gaulish and British coins with a glossary of Archaic Celtic words and an atlas of coins 1861. d. Bydews place near Maidstone 16 April 1871. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 309 (1872).

POTTER, ADDISON (eld . son of Addison Lang 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, senior partner presented with his portrait : horn Potter of Heaton hall, d . 1853). 1 1820 ; a brewer and maltster with his fatta at Newcastle, head of the firm

1853 ; iz

brick and cement manufacturer at Willington

quay ; chairman of Newcastle and Gatesben ! water co. ; member of Newcastle town counc

1852, alderman 1865, mayor 1873 - 4, 1874-5;

the oldest surviving volunteer officer ; captait

Northumberland and Durham

artillery 10

Aug. 1874, Mrs. Potter receiving a tiara diamonds. d. Heaton hall, Newcastle 23 Fek 1894 . bur. Jesmond road cemetery 24 Fei

I. L.N. 3 March 1894 p. 254 portrait, Nexcite Weekly chronicle 21 Feb. 1894 p. 8 portra ,

POSTGATE, John (son of Thomas Postgate, builder). b. Scarborough 21 Oct. 1820 ; in the service of a grocer where everything was adulterated ; M. R. C. S. 1844 ; F. R. C. S. 1854 ; L. S A. July 1845 ; a surgeon at Birmingham from 1854 ; examined before select Committee of house of commons on adulteration 1855, the members for Birmingham Wm. Scholefield and G. F. Muntz introduced nine bills dealing with adulteration, into the house of commons under his influence 1860 – 75 ; promoted the National association for promotion of social science 1857 ; professor of Medical jurisprudence and toxicology at Queen's college, Birmingham 7 May 1860 ; author of Sanitary aspects of Birmingham 1852 ; A few words on adulteration 1857 ; d. London hospital, London 26 Sept. 1881. Medical services and public payments 1862. bur. new cemet. Birmingham, portrait by Vivian Crome in council chamber at Scarborough. Elgbastonia 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 Lang 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, senior partner presented with his portrait : March p. 6.

POTTER, EDMUND (son of James Potter ). Manchester 1802 ; calico printer at Dinting Vale, near Glossop, Derbyshire 18:27, bas business became one of the largest in the world ; president of Manchester chamber of commerce 1852 -61; F .RS. 5 June 1856 M.P. Carlisle 1861-74 ; resided 64 Queen'i gate, South Kensington, London ; author of Calico print as an art manufacture 1333 Trade schools 1854 ; Practicalopinionsagainst partnership with limited liability, by a Man chester man 1855 ; The sugar duties 1864, ? ed. 1864. d. Camfield place, Hatfield, Hertz 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; ao art collector having oneof the finest collections of cloisonné ware in thekingdom ; 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. 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