Beresford Potter

Beresford Potter FRGS (1853–10 May 1931) was Archdeacon in Cyprus and Syria from 1901 to 1928.[1][2][3]

He also served as Chaplain, St Paul's English Church (now St Paul's Anglican Cathedral) in Nicosia.[4]

The son of Dr Samuel George Potter, he was born in Stratford on Slaney in Ireland in 1853. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with first-class honours in 1875.[1]

Arms

Coat of arms of Beresford Potter
Notes
Confirmed 8 July 1921 by George Dames Burtchaell, Athlone Pursuivant and Deputy Ulster King of Arms.[5]
Crest
On a wreath of the colours a seahorse Or charged on the breast with a cinquefoil Gules.
Escutcheon
Sable a fess vairy Or and Gules cottised Argent between three cinquefoils of the second.
Motto
Re E Merito

References

  1. 1 2 "Potter, Ven. Beresford, (1853–10 May 1931)." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO
  2. ↑ "Letters". The Spectator. No. 4775–4800. 1920. p. 613.
  3. ↑ "Royal Colonial Institute Year Book 1912" (PDF). Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "About Us". St Paul's Anglican Cathedral. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
  5. ↑ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Volume M". National Library of Ireland. p. 49. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
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