Herbert Cecil Potter

Brigadier-General Herbert Cecil Potter CB CMG DSO (10 October 1875 - 11 June 1964), was a senior British military officer, 'Military Chief' of Belfast and Colonel Commandant of the 3rd Indian Infantry Brigade, Peshawar. A catalogue of Potter’s papers described him as a ‘quintessential member of the British officer class’.

Early life

Hebert Cecil Potter was born in Nagasaki in Japan on 10 October 1875, the son of Frederick Anthony Potter and Florence Bessie Marshall (née Higgins). He was educated at Bedford Modern School and Sandhurst.

Career

After Sandhurst, Potter joined the King’s Liverpool Regiment as a Second Lieutenant on 29 February 1896 being promoted to Lieutenant on 2 March 1899. He served in the South African War (1901–02), in Sudan (1908) and throughout the European War on the Western Front.

At the start of World War I, Potter was under no illusion about the task ahead writing to his mother on 16 August 1914 that he hoped ‘to come home safe and sound from the war although many will not, very many. The Germans seem to have gone mad and appear to wish to fight everyone at once’. Within a month of writing that letter he was ‘temporarily out of action slightly wounded thro’ both legs’.

Potter

A potter is someone who makes pottery.

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Potter (Kent cricketer)

Potter (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played in major matches for Dartford and Kent during the 1750s and 1760s.

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Potter is recorded in the three Dartford v All-England matches which are the only significant matches found in the 1759 sources. Potter fielded in the then-important position of long stop. Dartford won the series 2–1.

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Potter (TV series)

Potter was a 1979 BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke. Running for three series, it originally starred Arthur Lowe as Redvers Potter, a busybody former sweet manufacturer ("Pottermints - the hotter mints") with time on his hands following retirement. Set in suburban South London, the series followed Potter in his various attempts to keep himself occupied by interfering in other people's business.

The series co-starred Noel Dyson as his wife Aileen, John Barron as the Vicar and John Warner as "Tolly" Tolliver, his next-door neighbour. Characters in later series included Harry H. Corbett as the comic ex-gangster Harry Tooms and Brenda Cowling as Jane.

The first series comprised 6 episodes, and aired in March–April, 1979. The second series comprised 7 episodes, and aired the following year, from February–April, 1980.

Plans for a third series were already underway when Lowe died (in April 1982), so Lowe was replaced by Robin Bailey in the 7-episode third series, which aired the following year between July–August 1983, after which the series was discontinued.

Herbert (given name)

Herbert is a Germanic given name, from hari "host" and beraht "bright". See also Heribert, another given name with the same roots.

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Herbert (video game)

Herbert was a platform computer game released in 1988 by AMC Verlag. A sequel, Herbert II, was released in 1989.

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The game world is being shown from a side view. The game objective consists of traversing through 20 levels with one or two ducks (namely Herbert and his friend Oscar) and to liberate finally his girlfriend. In doing so, both game characters may be only controlled by human players, the level is being shown twice one below the other. Herbert has the possibility to walk, run, swim, and flap. Except that, he can lay an egg in a nest turning up once in a while and receives an extra life, and three times a level it is possible to trigger invulnerability for some seconds. Enemies are among others a witch, a sword fighter, thorns on bushes or carnivorous plants. To complete a level, Herbert has to collect gems and to reach the exit on the right within a time limit. There are storable best times for each level and a highscore list.

A level is a half screen high and about six screens wide, there is only horizontally scrolling.

Herbert (film)

Herbert is a 2005 Bengali-language film that was directed by veteran theatre director Suman Mukhopadhyay. It was based on Nabarun Bhattacharya's Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel of the same name.

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