John Gerald Potter

John Gerald Potter (1829–1908) was an English wallpaper manufacturer, known also as a patron of James McNeill Whistler.

Anthony Oliver Molesworth of the Royal Artillery, and Julia (born 1817) married Nathaniel James Merriman and was mother of John X.

[3][4] James Greenway set up the Dob Meadow Print Works for calico in 1808.

8302 of 1839, obtained by Harold Potter, adapting a calico printing technique to wallpaper.

[16] He also came to own Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Cremorne Lights of 1872, now in the Tate collection; and other paintings.

[1] Three times an unsuccessful Liberal Party candidate for Blackburn, Potter contested the constituency first in 1865.

According to the diary of Charles Tiplady, he was encouraged to do so by Ernest King, who owned the Blackburn Times.

He stood for a last time in 1885, for Darwen, when he had the support of Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, who had left the Conservatives to become a Liberal.

[22] The youngest daughter, Julia Dasha, married Evelyn Scudamore, son of Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield,[23] and was mother of Edward Scudamore-Stanhope, 12th Earl of Chesterfield.