POTTER, Beresford was born in 1853 in Stratford on Slaney Vicarage, co. Wicklow. Son of Reverend Samuel George Potter, Doctor of Divinity, late Vicar of St. Luke’s, Sheffield, and Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel M‘Gill, Justice of the Peace, of Grieve, Cookstown, co.
Education
Studied at Trinity College Dublin. Graduated in first-class honours (Senior Moderator) in Mental and Moral Philosophy, 1875. Proceeded to Divinity Testimonium, 1876.
Master of Arts.
Career
Curate of Malvern, 1876. Senior Curate, 1879; Curate of Brighton, 1879. Rector of St. Peter’s, March, Cambridge, 1881.
Vicar of Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, 1886. Vicar of Clayhill, Enlield, 1893. Chaplain at Assouan, Upper Egypt,1895.
Chaplain of Nicosia, Cyprus, 1902-1905. Commissary in England to the Bishop in Jerusalem, 1906. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. Archdeacon in Cyprus since 1901.