Career
He frequented the Soho-Fitzrovia area where he would sell broadsheet copies of his poetry in the streets and publications Arthur Potts"s father, Doctor Walter Jeffery Potts (1837-1898), had married Julia, daughter of Sir Thomas Branthwaite Beevor, 3rd Baronet. Many descendants with the name "Beevor-Potts" live in Canada.
Potts"s memoir of Orwell, "Don Quixote on a Bicycle", appeared in The London Magazine in 1957 and became a chapter of Dante Called You Beatrice.
His 1948 essay “The World of George Barker” appeared in Poetry Quarterly. In late middle-age, Potts was "..balding" with "a stutter that he mixed with rapid blinking and an amused chuckle as he started a sentence", eventually becoming a dissolute figure "barred from Soho pubs".
Potts died in 1990 of smoke inhalation from a fire in his bedroom. He had been house-bound for some years by this time.
