[1] During the Second World War, Pott served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1941, and achieved the rank of Squadron Leader.
In 1946, after he was discharged from the RAFVR, Pott married Mary Larkworthy, who had also been a member of the National Poultry Council delegation eight years before.
In 1955, Christopher Hollis announced his retirement as Member of Parliament for Devizes, and Pott was selected to follow him as Conservative candidate.
[4] He also signed a motion opposing the "Suez Group" which supported the development of an economic and politically based organisation behind NATO.
In 1963 Pott announced that he would not fight the next election, but in the end he was found dead in bed at his London flat in January 1964 before Parliament had been dissolved.