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Thomas Potter (mayor)
Sir Thomas Potter, (5 April 1774 – 20 March 1845) was an English industrialist and Liberal politician.
==Early life==
Thomas Potter born on 5 April 1774 in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, the seventh of nine children of draper John Potter and his wife Anne Hartley.〔 His brothers were Richard who became MP for Wigan, and William.
His father, John Potter, was born on 7 December 1728 in Tadcaster and died there on 28 November 1802. He is buried in grave 40655 at St Mary the Virgin's Church in Tadcaster. He worked as a journeyman in London and on the death of his father, also John Potter, on 16 June 1758, and his mother, Anne, on 2 May 1762, he succeeded to their draper's shop in Tadcaster. He took a farm at Wighill where he dealt in sheep and wool.〔From Ploughshare to Parliament, by Georgina Meinertzhagen p.3〕 On 23 December 1785 an indenture was made for the lease of Wingate Hill Farm between Sir Walter Vavasour and John Potter 〔Indenture concerning the lease of Wingate Hill Farm〕 "The produce of it (Wingate Hill Farm) having been successively on the advance, his shop, too, having been conducted by his wife and children, all his concerns prospered, and enabled him to set two of his sons (William and Richard) up in Manchester at the beginning of this year (1802) with a capital possessed by few beginners (£ 14,000). And he died worth twelve thousand pounds, which, on the death of his spouse, he left equally to his sons and daughters."〔From Ploughshare to Parliament, by Georgina Meinertzagen, extract from Son Richard's Diary in 1802, p.3〕
William and Richard Potter opened a warehouse in Manchester at 5 Cannon Street, and a few months later they were joined by Thomas. The firm of William, Thomas and Richard Potter was established on 1 January 1803. William stood down from the business in 1806 when it became Thomas and Richard Potter.〔English Merchants, by H.R. Fox Bourne, p. 267〕
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