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Robert Potter (1721–1804)
Rev. Robert Potter (1721 – 9 August 1804) was an English clergyman of the Church of England, translator, poet and pamphleteer.〔David Stoker: Potter, Robert (1721–1804). ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004). (Retrieved 5 September 2010 ).〕 He established the convention of using blank verse for Greek hexameters and rhymed verse for choruses.
==Life==
Potter was born in Podimore, Somerset, the third son of John Potter (fl. 1676–1723), a prebendary of Wells Cathedral. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and graduated BA in 1742, when was ordained. He married the daughter of Rev. Colman of Hardingham.〔''A General History of the County of Norfolk'', Vol I., John Chambers (Norwich/London, 1829), p. 107n.〕 His children included a daughter Sarah, referred to in a letter.〔Norfolk Record Office, Le Neve Correspondence, MC 1/9 386 x 5 1783.〕 He became curate of Reymerston and vicar of Melton Parva, but the combined emoluments of these were less than £50 a year. He later became curate of Scarning, Norfolk,〔(). Retrieved May 16, 2010.〕 as well as master of Seckar's School there from 1761 to 1789, but spent much of his time writing and translating. Among his pupils was Jacob Mountain (1749–1825), the first Anglican bishop of Quebec.〔Dictionary of Canadian Biography. (). Retrieved 17 November 2013.〕
In 1788, Lewis Bagot, bishop of Norwich, presented Potter as vicar to the combined parishes of Lowestoft and Kessingland, Suffolk, and as a prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, through the patronage of Lord Chancellor Lord Thurlow, who had attended Seckar's School. According to one story, Thurlow and Potter had been schoolfellows at Seckar's, which seems unlikely as Potter was ten years his junior. For whatever reason, when Potter approached Thurlow to ask for a £10 subscription to his Sophocles translation, he received the valuable cathedral stall instead.〔''A General History...'', op. cit., Vol. II, p. 834.〕
Robert Potter died aged 83 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and was buried in Lowestoft churchyard. There is a 1789 etching of a bewigged Potter in the National Portrait Gallery in London.〔(). Accessed May 16, 2010.〕
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