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William Potts Memorial Clock erected by his sons in 1901 in Darlington (his birthplace) William Potts was born in December 1809 and was apprenticed to Samuel Thompson, a Darlington clockmaker . In 1833, at the age of 24, William moved to Pudsey near Leeds, to set up his own business. [ 1 ]
Dr. Potts and his wife Elizabeth sailed from London aboard the George in March 1619. The George was a 150-ton sailing vessel with William Ewen as the master. After a two-month passage the vessel arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in May 1619.
William Potts (inventor) (1883–1947), American policeman and inventor of modern traffic lights William E. Potts (1921–2005), American army general William Estel Potts (1935–2004), American army general
George Potts (1807 – 20 September 1863) [1] was a British Liberal and Conservative politician. Potts was the son of William Potts and Mary (née Bayly), daughter of William Bayly. He married three times, including to his cousin Ellen ńee Reed, daughter of James Reed, in 1847. [ 2 ]
The furnace was named for Isabella Potts, wife of one of the partners, a member of the Potts ironmaking family. Isabella was the last iron furnace to be built in the county, in 1835, and was operated by members of the Potts family and their partners until 1855, when they lost control of it in a bankruptcy.
William Potts (May 1883 – 1947) was a Detroit police officer who is credited with inventing the modern, three-lens traffic light in Detroit in 1920. (A gas-powered, two-lens, red/green traffic signal was invented in London in 1868 by John Peake Knight, though after a short test installation, traffic lights were not seen again in the U.K. until 1929.) [1]
William John Potts, OOnt (June 25, 1915 – February 4, 1990) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name "Whipper" Billy Watson. He was a two-time world champion, having held both the National Wrestling Association title and the National Wrestling Alliance title. On February 21, 1947, he became the first man to win a world ...
Dewees circa. 1833, portrait by John Neagle. William Potts Dewees (May 5, 1768 – May 18, 1841) was an American physician, best known for his work in obstetrics, being described in American Medical Biographies as a "Philadelphian obstetrician [that] was so famous that no parturient woman of the time considered herself safe in other hands."