Joseph Holden Pott (1759–1847) was an English churchman,
archdeacon of London
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from 1813.
Life
He was one of the nine children of
Percivall Pott
Percivall Pott (6 January 1714, in London – 22 December 1788) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopaedics, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen.
Career
He was the ...
, the eminent surgeon, and Sarah Cruttenden, and was born in his father's house near
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
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History
Early history
Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere (died ...
. He was educated at
Eton College
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, and sent at an early age to
St John's College, Cambridge
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.
He graduated B.A. in 1780, and proceeded M.A. in 1783. Taking holy orders, he was collated by Bishop
Thomas Thurlow to the prebend of Welton-Brinkhall in
Lincoln Cathedral
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, 17 March 1785. In 1787 he became rector of
St Olave, Old Jewry
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with
St Martin, Ironmonger Lane. He was appointed
archdeacon of St Albans
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History
Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries and ...
on 8 January 1789.
In 1797 he exchanged his London rectory for the living of
Little Burstead
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In 1086 the parish had 9 households and was he ...
,
Essex
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, which he left for the vicarage of
Northolt
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,
Middlesex
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, on 24 February 1806. He next became vicar of
St Martin-in-the-Fields
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, London, 12 December 1812, and exchanged the
archdeaconry of St Albans for that of London, 31 December 1813. In 1822 (4 October) he received a canonry in
St Paul's Cathedral
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, and on 13 July 1824 exchanged the vicarage of St. Martin's for that of
Kensington
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The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
. Finally, he became canon and chancellor of
Exeter Cathedral
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, 2 May 1826.
Resigning his archdeaconry and his vicarage in 1842, he held both canonries until his death, which took place on 16 February 1847, at his residence in
Woburn Place
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Kingsway
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, Bloomsbury, London. He died unmarried, leaving considerable personal effects and a valuable library, which was sold by auction in May 1847.
Works
At Eton, he dabbled in verse, and up to 1786 four separate works, in verse and prose, appeared from his pen.
Pott assisted
John Nichols to some extent in the production of the ''Literary Anecdotes'', and he is mentioned with approval by Mathias in the ''Pursuits of Literature'' in the phrase as Gisborne serious, and as Pott devout.
His principal works, besides sermons, controversial tracts, and archidiaconal charges, of which he delivered twenty-six, were:
* ''Poems'', 1779
* ''Elegies, and Seimane, a Tragedy'', 1782
* ''Essay on Landscape-painting, with Remarks on the different Schools'', 1783
* ''The Tour of Valentine'', 1786
* ''Testimonies of St. Paul concerning Justification'', 1846.
References
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Notes
;Attribution
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pott, Joseph Holden
1759 births
1847 deaths
Archdeacons of London
Archdeacons of St Albans
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
18th-century Anglican theologians
19th-century Anglican theologians