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John Potts (Corps Of Discovery)
John Potts may refer to: * John Potts (athlete) (1906–1987), English Olympic athlete *John Potts (American frontiersman), a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition * John Potts (baseball) (1887–1962), Major League Baseball right fielder * John Potts (British politician) (1861–1938), British Labour Party politician * John Potts (cricketer) (born 1960), English cricketer * John Potts (engraver) (1791–1841), English engraver * John Potts (footballer) (1904–1986), English footballer *John Potts (Pennsylvanian) (1710–?), founder of Pottstown, Pennsylvania * Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet ('1592–1673), English politician See also *John Pott (died 1645), 17th-century Colonial Governor of Virginia at the Jamestown settlement *Johnny Pott John Francis Pott (born November 6, 1935) is an American professional golfer. Pott was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and reared in southern Mississippi, where he learned to play golf on the course where his father was the club professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potts (athlete)
John Henry Soulsby "Jack" Potts (17 September 1906 – 25 April 1987) was a British long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... References 1906 births 1987 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1934 British Empire Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics British male long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Great Britain Place of birth missing {{UK-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potts (American Frontiersman)
John Potts (born about 1776 in Dillenburg † 1809 at the banks of the Jefferson River) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Subsequent to the Expedition, Potts frequently teamed up with John Colter, another former Expedition member, to explore Montana. In 1808, he and Potts were both injured fighting the Blackfoot tribe as they led a party of the Crow Tribe to Fort Raymond. In 1809, another altercation with the Blackfoot resulted in John Potts' death and Colter's capture. While going by canoe up the Jefferson River, Potts and Colter encountered several hundred Blackfoot who demanded they come ashore. Colter went ashore and was disarmed and stripped naked. When Potts then refused to come ashore he was hit by an arrow and wounded. Potts in his turn shot one of the Blackfoot and died riddled with arrows fired from the shore. His body was brought ashore and hacked to pieces. A rock on the Martian Endeavour Crater Endeavour is an impact crater located in the Meridian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potts (baseball)
John Frederick Potts (February 6, 1887 – September 5, 1962) was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played for the Kansas City Packers of the Federal League The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that played its first season as a minor league in 1913 and operated as a "third major league", in competition with the e ... in . External links * 1887 births 1962 deaths Major League Baseball right fielders Case Western Spartans baseball players Kansas City Packers players Baseball players from Ohio Dallas Giants players Chillicothe Infants players Portsmouth Cobblers players Cleveland Green Sox players People from Tipp City, Ohio Sportspeople from Miami County, Ohio {{US-baseball-outfielder-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potts (British Politician)
John Samuel Potts (12 August 1861 – 28 April 1938) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served a Member of Parliament (MP) for twelve years between 1922 and 1938. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, Potts had started work at Durham Colliery at the age of eleven.Obituary The Colliery Guardian; 6 May 1938, Page: 842, Column: 2 He was a checkweighman at the Hemsworth Colliery, , for 25 years. At the Barnsley by-election of 1897, Potts supported the |
John Potts (cricketer)
John Potts (born 4 July 1960) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Cheshire. He was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou .... Potts, who played for one season with Leicestershire Under 25s and Second XI, plus 2 First XI matches v The Minor Counties, and The Combined Services, having previously played for Staffordshire County Cricket Club. He made his debut List A appearance in the 1992 NatWest Trophy, against Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. From the lower order, he scored 14 with the bat, and took figures of 1–34 with the ball. He played in the following year's competition, against Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, taking 2 wickets and scoring 8 runs. JP Sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potts (engraver)
John Potts (1791–1841) was the inventor of a method of calico printing by the use of copper rollers onto which patterns had been engraved. He was born in Manchester, he moved to New Mills, Derbyshire in 1820. He founded the firm of engravers to calico printers known as Potts, Oliver and Potts, with his brother William Wainwright Potts, at St. George's Works. John was an artist and engraver, William was more interested in pottery. Some pottery was made and decorated in New Mills in the upper works which was described as a print and pot works as late as 1841. John Potts also did some printing on his own account, focusing his attention on the printing of silk. The William Wainwright Potts eventually moved to Burslem Burslem ( ) is one of the six towns that along with Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent form part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. It is often referred to as the "mother town" of Stoke on Trent. T ... to become a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potts (footballer)
John Foster Potts (22 January 1904 – 1 October 1986) was an English footballer. A goalkeeper, he was tall and described as "safe as houses". He spent 1926 to 1934 with Leeds United, winning promotions out of the Second Division in 1927–28 and 1931–32, and then spent two years with Port Vale. He was the brother-in-law of the Milburn brothers Jack, George and Jimmy, who all played for Leeds United. Career Potts joined Blyth Spartans at the age of sixteen and played for them whilst working as a coal-hewer at Ashington Colliery. He turned professional at Leeds United after being signed for a fee of £200 in February 1926. He played 12 First Division games at the end of the 1925–26 season. Now club captain, he made 45 appearances in the 1926–27 season, as Leeds were relegated into the Second Division. He kept goal on 39 occasions in 1927–28, as United won promotion in second place. He featured 41 times in 1928–29, but played only 18 games in the 1929–30 campai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potts (Pennsylvanian)
John Potts (c. 1710 – 6 June 1768) was the founder of the town of Pottstown, Pennsylvania.History of Pottstown from Pottstown Official Website (accessed March 30, 2011) He was also an ironmaster, merchant, and English Quaker. John Potts, oldest son of Thomas and Martha (Keurlis) Potts, was born about 1710, probably in . He married Ruth Savage, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Rutter) Savage, on 11 April 1734. The marriage was accomplished after the manner of Friends, though not under their care or jurisdiction. J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet
Sir John Potts, 1st Baronet (c. 1592–1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648 and in 1660. Potts was the son of John Potts and his wife Ann Dodge, daughter of John Dodge. In November 1640, Potts was elected Member of Parliament for Norfolk in the Long Parliament. He was knighted on 9 August 1641 and created baronet of Mannington in the County of Norfolk, on 14 August 1641. Nevertheless, he supported the Parliamentarian side and sat until he was excluded under Pride's Purge in 1648. In 1660, Potts was elected MP for Great Yarmouth in the Convention Parliament. Potts died in 1673 and was buried at Mannington, Norfolk. Potts "was obliged to marry a daughter of — Goodsill, esq. a favourite at court, with a small fortune", according to a writer in the time of the Court of Wards, and had three daughters. He married secondly Ursula Spelman widow and a daughter of Sir John Willoughby of Risley, Derbyshire. They had three sons John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pott
John Potts (or Pott) was a physician and Colonial Governor of Virginia at the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony in the early 17th century. Biography John Potts is said to have taken his degree of M.A., at Oxford University in 1605. He was recommended as physician to the Virginia Company of London by the eminent Dr. Theodore Gulston, the founder of the Gulstonian Lectureship of the London College of Physicians. In the minutes of the Virginia Company of July 16, 1621, is the following entry: "For so much as the Phisicons place to the Company was now become voyde by reason of the untimely death of Dr. Bohune, slaine in the fight with two Spanish Shipps of Warr the 19th of March last, Dr. Gulstone did now take occasion to recommend unto the Company for the said place one Mr. Potts, a Master of Arts, well practised in Chirurgerie and Physique, and expert also in distillinge of waters." Dr. Potts and his wife Elizabeth sailed from London aboard the ''George'' in March 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |