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POTTS, LAURENCE HOLKER, son of Cuthbert Potts, Pall Mall, London, surgeon, and Ethelinda Margaretta, dau. of John Thorpe FSA, Rochester, Kent, antiquary; b. 18 Apr 1789; in school list 1801; left Christmas 1803; St. George’s Hospital 1810; MRCS 1812; MD Aberdeen 1825; practised at Truro, Cornwall; Superintendent and Physician, County Lunatic Asylum, Bodmin, Cornwall 1828-37; established an institution for treating spinal diseases at Blackheath, Kent 1837; an inventor; took out a patent for sinking foundations under water by creating a partial vacuum 1843, which, although not a financial success for him, incidentally gave rise to the system of sinking foundations by compressed air; m. 1 Aug 1820 Anne, dau. of John Wright, Lower Redbrooke, Gloucs.; d. 23 Mar 1850. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.