Paul Hugh Howard Potts (19 July 1911 – 26 August 1990), a British-born poet who lived in British Columbia in his youth,[1][2] was the author of Dante Called You Beatrice (1960), a memoir of unrequited love.
One of the women treated in the memoir was Jean Hore, who married the writer Philip O'Connor but ended up confined as a schizophrenic for over fifty years until her death.
[11][12][13] He was educated in Canada, England (at Stonyhurst until the age of sixteen[14]) and Italy (at a Jesuit college in Florence),[15] but from the early 1930s he lived in London.
[18][19][20] Potts's memoir of Orwell, "Don Quixote on a Bicycle", appeared in The London Magazine in 1957[21][22] and became a chapter of Dante Called You Beatrice.
[23] In late middle-age, Potts was '...balding' with 'a stutter that he mixed with rapid blinking and an amused chuckle as he started a sentence', eventually becoming a dissolute figure 'barred from Soho pubs'.