Potter

Potter, JOHN, D.D., an English scholar and divine, the son of a linen-draper of Wakefield, in Yorkshire, was born in 1674, studied with great diligence and success at Oxford, where he took his degree of M.A. in 1694, and in the same year received holy orders. He was appointed chaplain to Queen Anne in 1706, professor of Divinity at Oxford in 1708, Bishop of Oxford in 1715, and finally in 1737 attained the highest dignity in the English Church—the archbishopric of Canterbury. He died 21st October 1747, and was buried at Croydon. Potter's principal work is his Archæologia Græca ('Antiquities of Greece,' 2 vols. 1698), not superseded until the appearance of Dr W. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities; besides which, however, we may mention his edition of Lycephron (1697) and of Clemens Alexandrinus (1715).