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Francis Potter : ウィキペディア英語版 | Francis Potter
Francis Potter (1594–1678) was an English painter, clergyman, Biblical commentator, and experimentalist, an early Fellow of the Royal Society. ==Life== He was second son of Richard Potter (died 1628), prebendary of Worcester, and his wife, who belonged to the Horsey family of Clifton, Dorset. He was born at Mere vicarage on 29 May 1594, and educated at the King's School, Worcester. In 1609 he went up as a commoner to Trinity College, Oxford where his elder brother Hannibal was a scholar; he graduated B.A. in 1613, and M.A. in 1616. In 1625 he proceeded B.D., and, after his father's death in 1628, succeeded him as rector of Kilmington, although he did not at first reside there. He escaped sequestration during the English Civil War and Interregnum. He was admitted a Fellow of Royal Society on 11 November 1663. soon after its foundation. Nearly blind, he died unmarried in April 1678, and was buried in the chancel at Kilmington. His friend John Aubrey describes him as ‘like a monk,’ and as ‘pretty long visaged, and pale clear skin, gray eie.’
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