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Foster: Potter, John, s. Tho., of Wakefield, Yorks, paup. University Coll., matric 18 May 1688, aged 14, BA 23 Jan 1691-2; fellow Lincoln Coll. 1694-1706, MA 1694, BD 1704, DD 1706, canon of Christ Church 1707-37, and regius professor of Hebrew 1707-37, chaplain to John Hough, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and to Archbishop Tenison 1704, rector of Greens Norton, Northants, 1697-1700, vicar of Coleby, co Lincoln, 1697-1709, rector of Mongeham, Kent, 1706-7, of Monks Risborough, Bucks, 1707-8, and of Newington, Oxon, 1708-37, chaplain in ordinary to Queen Anne,bishop of Oxford 1715-37, archbishop of Canterbury 1737, until his death 10 Oct 1747; buried in the chancel of the parish church of Croydon; father of John 1727, and Thomas 1731. See Ath., iv. 460; Rawl., i. 266b; v. 247, and xxi. 78; Hearne, i. 227, 336.