Records of Francis Pott on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Francis Pott and the Pott Family History

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Some Famous People called Francis Pott

Francis Lister Hawks Pott

Francis Lister Hawks Pott ( February 22, 1864 – March 7, 1947) was an American Episcopal missionary and educator in China. He served as President of St. John's College (later renamed St. John's University), one of China's oldest and most prestigious universities, from 1888 until 1941. With the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 and the Japanese occupation of the Shanghai International Settlement, he left for the United States. After World War II, he returned to Shanghai, but soon died in 1947.

Pott was married to Soo Ngoo Wong, who died in 1918. There children were James Hawks Pott, William Sumpner Appleton Hawks Pott, Olivia Hawks Pott, and Walter Graham Hawks Pott.

In 1919 in Shanghai, he married Emily Georgiana nee Browne, the widow of his St. John’s colleague Frederick Clement Cooper and mother of Gwendolin and Mervyn Cooper.

Pott was educated at the Trinity School, received a bachelor's degree from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1883, and a degree in divinity General Theological Seminary in 1886.

Source: Francis Lister Hawks Pott, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Pott

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