Beresford Potter

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

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.[4]
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. "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. "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Volume M". National Library of Ireland. p. 49. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
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