John Potenger

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John Potenger or Pottinger (1647–1733) was an English legal official and author.[1] He was educated at Winchester School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and proceeded B.A. in 1668. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1675. He obtained the post of master in chancery after 1678, and subsequently sold it. He was removed from public office for refusing to support the religious policy of James II, but was restored by William III. He was the author of A Pastoral Reflection on Death, several translations, and many unpublished poems.

Life

John Potenger, born on 21 July 1647, was the son of John Potenger, D.D., originally of Burghfield in Berkshire, and Anne, daughter of William Wither of Manydown in the parish of Wootton St Lawrence in Hampshire.

Broad Blunsdon in the parish of Highworth, Wiltshire.[2]

Works

Potenger was the author of A Pastoral Reflection on Death, 1691, and of many unpublished poems and translations. Two verse translations appeared anonymously: the passage on Sleep from the Silvae of Statius (v. 4) in Nahum Tate's miscellany,[8] and an ode of Horace (ii. 14) in Dryden's second poetical miscellany.[9][1] Nichols, in his Select Collection of Poems,[10] prints Potenger's version of Horace, and adds in a note two letters from Dr. South praising his other compositions.[11] Both translations appear in The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation (1995).[12][1] Potenger also published a translation of the Life of Agricola by Tacitus (8vo, 1698). His memoirs of his own life were edited in 1841 by his descendant, C. W. Bingham, vicar of Sydling St. Nicholas, Dorset. Apart from their biographical detail they contain information on the state of education at Winchester and Oxford in the seventeenth century. Extracts from the part relating to Oxford are reprinted in Couch's Reminiscences of Oxford.[13][14]

References

  1. ^ a b c Firth; Chahoud 2004.
  2. ^ a b Firth 1896, p. 206.
  3. ^ Foster 1891, Alumni Oxonienses, 1st ser. p. 1187.
  4. ^ Wood 1692, Fasti, ii. pp. 100, 739.
  5. ^ Kirby 1692, Annals of Winchester College, pp. 318, 345.
  6. ^ Potenger 1841, Memoirs, p. 50.
  7. ^ Chester 1887, London Marriage Licenses, p. 1079.
  8. ^ Tate 1685, Poems by Several Hands, p. 54.
  9. ^ Dryden 1685, Sylvæ, pp. 166–168.
  10. ^ Nichols 1780, i. p. 213.
  11. ^ Nichols 1784, viii. p. 286.
  12. ^ Poole; Maule 1995, pp. 323–324, 435–436.
  13. ^ Quiller Couch 1892, p. 53.
  14. ^ Firth 1896, pp. 206–207.

Sources

  • Chester, Joseph Lemuel; Dean, John Ward (1887). London Marriage Licences, 1521–1869. Foster, Joseph (ed.). London: Bernard Quaritch. p. 1079.
  • Dryden, John (1685). Sylvæ, or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson. pp. 166–168.
  • Firth, C. H.; Chahoud, Anna (2004). "Potenger, John (1647–1733), legal official and writer". required.)
  • Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714. 1st series. Oxford: Parker & Co. p. 1187.
  • Kirby, Thomas Frederick (1892). Annals of Winchester College. London: Henry Frowde; Winchester: P. and G. Wells. pp. 318, 345.
  • Nichols, John (1780). A Select Collection of Poems. Vol. 1. London: J. Nichols. pp. 213–214.
  • Nichols, John (1784). A Select Collection of Poems. Vol. 8. London: J. Nichols. pp. 286–287.
  • Poole, Adrian; Maule, Jeremy (1995). The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 323–324, 435–436, 567, 574, 581.
  • Potenger, John (1841). The Private Memoirs of John Potenger, Esq. Binham, C. W. (ed.). London: Hamilton Adams and Co. p. 50.
  • Quiller Couch, Lilian M. (1892). Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford Men 1559–1850. (Oxford Historical Society). Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 53–56.
  • Tate, Nahum (1685). Poems by Several Hands. London: Printed for J. Hindmarsh. p. 54.
  • Wood, Anthony A. (1692). Athenæ Oxonienses; To which are added, The Fasti. Vol. 2. London: Printed by Tho. Bennet. pp. 739, 801.
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