Stephen Potter (other)
Stephen Potter (1900–1969) was a British writer. Stephen Potter may also refer to: *Stephen Potter (judge) (1727–1793), American judge and politician in Rhode Island * Stephen Potter (officer) (1896–1918), American-born officer who flew for the British Navy in World War I, after whom USS ''Stephen Potter'' is named ** USS Stephen Potter * Stephen Potter, Australian filmmaker, co-writer, director and producer, with Natasha Wanganeen and others, of ''Bunker: The Last Fleet'' * Stephen Potter, leader of the defunct For Darwen Party The For Darwen Party was a local political party in Darwen, south of Blackburn, England, with a platform that Darweners were not properly represented on Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. Founded in 2007, the party had three Borough Councill ...

Stephen Potter
Stephen Meredith Potter (1 February 1900 – 2 December 1969) was a British writer best known for his parodies of self-help books, and their film and television derivatives. After leaving school in the last months of the First World War he was commissioned as a junior officer in the British Army, but by the time he had completed his training the war was over and he was demobilised. He then studied English at Oxford, and after some false starts he spent his early working life as an academic, lecturing in English literature at Birkbeck College, part of the University of London, during which time he published several works on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Finding his income inadequate to support himself and his family, he left the university and took up a post producing and writing for the BBC. He remained with the BBC until after the Second World War, when he became a freelance writer, and remained so for the rest of his life. His series of humorous books on how to secure an unfair ...
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Stephen Potter (judge)
Stephen Potter (August 14, 1727 – 1793) was a Rhode Island politician who served for three periods a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court The Rhode Island Supreme Court is the court of last resort in the U.S. State of Rhode Island. The Court consists of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices, all selected by the Governor of Rhode Island from candidates vetted by the Judicial No .... Potter was the son of the first settler in Cranston, Rhode Island, and moved to the county of Kent, Rhode Island, and settled. He was "a leading politician in the paper-money party, which arose in Rhode Island soon after the Revolutionary War", and served as "speaker of the House of Representatives, chief-justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and a judge of the Supreme Court of the State".''The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America'' (1862), p. 35. Potter's served on the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1764 to May 17 ...
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Stephen Potter (officer)
USS ''Stephen Potter'' (DD-538), a , was a ship of the United States Navy. ''Stephen Potter'' was commissioned in 1943 and served in the Pacific during World War II. She was then mothballed until 1951 whereupon she saw service in several areas including the Korean War. In 1958 she was placed in reserve, and scrapped in 1973. Namesake Stephen Potter was born on 26 December 1896 in Saginaw, Michigan. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy (not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God) , location = 20 Main Street , city = Exeter, New Hampshire , zipcode ... and was then a member of the second Yale University unit which left college in April 1917 to enter naval aviation. He trained with Volunteer Aerial Coast Patrol Unit No. 2 at Buffalo, New York, and was commissioned Ensign (rank), Ensign on 2 November 1917. He volunteered to go overseas immediately ...
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