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JOHN POTTER (c. 1674-1747)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:POTTER (c. 1674-1747)  , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was the son of a See also:linen-See also:draper at See also:Wakefield, See also:Yorkshire, and was See also:born about 1674 . At the See also:age of fourteen he entered University See also:College, See also:Oxford, and in 1693 he published notes on See also:Plutarch's De audiendis poetis and See also:Basil's Oratio ad juvenes . In 1694 he was elected See also:fellow of See also:Lincoln College, and in 1697 his edition of See also:Lycophron appeared . It was followed by his Archaeologia graeca (2 vols . 8vo, 1697-1798), the popularity of which endured till the See also:advent of Dr See also:William See also:Smith's dictionaries . A reprint of his Lycophron in 1702 was dedicated to See also:Graevius, and the Antiquities was afterwards published in Latin in the See also:Thesaurus of See also:Gronovius . Besides holding several livings he became in 1704 See also:chaplain to Archbishop See also:Tenison, and shortly afterwards was made chaplain-in-See also:ordinary to See also:Queen See also:Anne . From 1708 he was regius See also:professor of divinity and See also:canon of See also:Christ See also:Church, Oxford; and from 1715 he was See also:bishop of Oxford . In the latter See also:year appeared his edition of See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria . In 1707 he published a Discourse on Church See also:Government, and he took a prominent See also:part in the controversy with See also:Benjamin See also:Hoadly, bishop of See also:Bangor . In See also:January 1737 See also:Potter was unexpectedly appointed to succeed See also:Wake in the see of Canterbury . He died on the loth of See also:October 1747 .

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Works, consisting of sermons, charges, divinity lectures and the Discourse on Church Government, were published in 3 vols . 8vo, in 1753 .

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