George Potter (other)
George Potter may refer to: * George Potter (trade unionist) (1832–1893), English trade unionist * George Potter (politician) (1883–1945), Australian politician * George Potter (cricketer) (1878–?), English cricketer * George William Potter (1831–1919), builder, estate agent and surveyor in Hampstead, London * George Richard Potter (1900–1982), British historian * George Potter (MP for West Looe), member of parliament for West Looe West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

George Potter (trade Unionist)
George Potter (1832 – 3 June 1893) was a prominent English trade unionist. Biography George Potter was born in Kenilworth. He was educated for a short time at a local dame school, but left to work at a young age to supplement his father's income of three shillings a day. He worked as a farm labourer until he was sixteen, when he moved to Coventry where he became an apprentice joiner and cabinet-maker. In 1854 he moved to London to work as a carpenter. In London, he joined a small trade union, the Progressive Society of Carpenters and Joiners, to which he was elected secretary in 1854, and chairman in 1858. He believed that progress could be made if all trade unions representing the building trades were united in one society, so in 1859 organised the Building Trades Conference. At the conference, the unions agreed to demand a maximum working day of nine hours from their employers. The employers refused, resulting in strike action and a lockout. Eventually the unions conceded, b ...
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George Potter (politician)
George Potter (28 November 1883 – 10 December 1945) was an Australian politician who was a Nationalist Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1922 to 1928, representing West Province. Potter was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Ellen (née Thomson) and John Potter. He attended James Gillespie's High School and Heriot-Watt College, and then joined the British Army, serving in the Boer War. Potter emigrated to Western Australia in 1909, to farm wheat at Bruce Rock. He re-entered the military on the outbreak of the First World War, joining the Australian Imperial Force. In August 1915, while fighting in the Gallipoli Campaign, Potter was wounded in action. He was subsequently repatriated to Australia, and worked at a military hospital in Fremantle until his discharge in February 1917. After the war's end, Potter worked as a hospital secretary. He was elected to parliament in 1922, defeating a sitting Labor member, Alexander Panton, in West Pr ...
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George Potter (cricketer)
George Potter (3 October 1878 – unknown) was an English cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er active in 1902 who played for Lancashire. He was born in Runcorn. He appeared in ten first-class matches as a righthanded batsman, scoring 449 runs with a highest score of 86 and held three catches. Notes 1878 births Date of death unknown English cricketers Lancashire cricketers Cheshire cricketers Cricketers from Cheshire Sportspeople from Runcorn {{england-cricket-bio-1870s-stub ...
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George William Potter
George William Potter (1831 – 14 April 1919) was a builder, estate agent and surveyor in Hampstead, London, whose firm contributed to the modern development of Hampstead and Hampstead Garden Suburb. As a builder, he constructed the houses in Gayton Crescent and Gayton Road. Late in life he wrote two books of recollections of the history of Hampstead. Early life and family George Potter was born in Hertford in 1831 to George Potter, a carpenter, and his wife Rebecca. He married Elizabeth and they had daughters Edith, Elizabeth, Frances and Helen, and sons Herbert, William, and Francis (Frank). Francis went on to become a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Herbert worked as a "Surveyors Auctioneer", probably in the family firm. In 1881, the family were living at 27 Gayton Road, Hampstead. In 1891 they were living at Gardnor House, built by Thomas Gardnor around 1736. In 1901 they were at 4 Gayton Crescent.
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George Richard Potter
George Richard Potter (1900 – 1981) was a British historian. From 1931 until 1965 he was Professor of Modern/Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. He also edited the first volume of ''The New Cambridge Modern History ''The New Cambridge Modern History'' replaced the original ''Cambridge Modern History'' in an entirely new project with all new editors and contributors. It was published by Cambridge University Press in fourteen volumes between the 1950s and the 1 ...''.The New Cambridge Modern History
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*''Sir Thomas More (1478-1538)'' (London: Parsons, 1925). *''Macaulay'' (London: Longmans, 1959). *''Ulrich Zwingli'' (Historical Association, 1977). *(with Mark Greengrass), ''John C ...
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George Potter (MP For West Looe)
George Potter may refer to: * George Potter (trade unionist) (1832–1893), English trade unionist * George Potter (politician) (1883–1945), Australian politician * George Potter (cricketer) (1878–?), English cricketer * George William Potter (1831–1919), builder, estate agent and surveyor in Hampstead, London * George Richard Potter (1900–1982), British historian * George Potter (MP for West Looe), member of parliament for West Looe West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...