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[edit]

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

^ ^a ^b "Potter, Ven. Beresford, (1853–10 May 1931)." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO
^ "Letters". The Spectator. No. 4775–4800. 1920. p. 613.
^ "Royal Colonial Institute Year Book 1912" (PDF). Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Volume M". National Library of Ireland. p. 49. Retrieved 24 August 2022.